The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex which gained 272 points in the previous session, fell by 89 points, or 0.52 per cent, to 17,041 in the first few minutes of trade today.In a similar fashion, the wide-based National Stock Exchange Nifty index shed 27 or 0.53 per cent, to 5,133 points.Meanwhile, in the Asian region, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index was down 2.52 per cent, while Japan's Nikkei lost 1.29 per cent in morning trade today. The Dow Jones Industrial Average in the US fell by 4.62 per cent in the previous session on Friday.