Indian equities witnessed one of the worst trading sessions Monday as broad based selling by foreign funds saw indices falling over 5 per cent. Realty, metals and capital goods bore the brunt of bear onslaught.
Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex closed at 11,847.06, down 5.42 per cent or 679.26 points. It touched an intra-day low of 11,732.97. National Stock Exchange’s Nifty ended at 3,623.25, down 195.05 points or 5.11 per cent. The 50-share index touched a low of 3581.60 BSE Midcap Index declined 7.02 per cent at 4349.30 and BSE Smallcap Index fell 6.73 per cent to 5097.78. Sterlite Industries, down 15.4 per cent, took the sharpest knock followed by Reliance Infrastructure (14.31%), Jaiprakash Associates (13.65%), Tata Power (10.4%), Tata Steel (10.23%) and DLF (10.21%). Hindalco (0.61%) was the lone gainer on the index. Market breadth was weak on the BSE with 2358 losers and 292 gainers. European markets too were witnessing the sell-off led by banks and commodities stocks. FTSE 100 was down 3.30 per cent, CAC 40 fell 5.98 per cent and DAX declined 5.44 per cent. Ravichandran K. www.kences1.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Kences1" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/kences1?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
