Equity traders grew to become poorer by over Rs 6.71 lakh crore on Thursday as home benchmark indices tumbled amid a worldwide market meltdown.
The 30-share BSE benchmark Sensex tanked 1,416.30 factors or 2.61 per cent to settle at 52,792.23, monitoring weak world markets and chronic overseas fund outflows.
In line with the weak market development, the market capitalisation of BSE-listed companies tumbled by Rs 6,71,051.73 crore to face at Rs 2,49,06,394.08 crore.
“The rout in different Asian indices and European gauges triggered a large sell-off in native equities as each Sensex and Nifty ended beneath their essential psychological ranges of 53k and 16k, respectively. Investors fretted over stagflation dangers and Federal Reserve’s extra hawkish stance to rein in inflation by choosing extra charge hikes, which might have a much bigger affect on the financial system going forward.
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“Till the time FIIs remain net sellers, the south-bound journey will be difficult to reverse,” mentioned Shrikant Chouhan, Head of Equity Research (Retail), Kotak Securities Ltd.
From the Sensex companies, Wipro, HCL Technologies, Infosys, TCS, Tech Mahindra, Tata Steel, IndusInd Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank have been the foremost laggards.
ITC, Dr Reddy’s and PowerGrid have been the one gainers.
Barring Shanghai, different Asian markets ended decrease, with Seoul, Hong Kong and Tokyo dropping as much as 2.54 per cent.
Equity exchanges in Europe have been additionally buying and selling sharply decrease within the afternoon session.
Stock markets within the US had ended deep within the crimson on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, worldwide oil benchmark Brent crude declined 1.27 per cent to USD 107.7 per barrel.
Foreign institutional traders remained in promoting mode, offloading shares value a web Rs 1,254.64 crore on Wednesday, as per inventory alternate knowledge.
“Markets plunged sharply decrease and misplaced over 2.6 per cent, pressurised by weak world cues. The meltdown within the US markets, on worry of aggressive charge hikes, rattled traders and triggered a weak begin.
“The situation worsened further due to heavy selling in the index majors across sectors wherein IT and metal majors were among the top losers,” mentioned Ajit Mishra, VP – Research, Religare Broking Ltd.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”