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Equity benchmark Sensex plunged 740 factors on Thursday, dragged by losses in index majors Reliance Industries, Infosys and HDFC Bank as month-to-month derivatives expired amid weak cues from international markets.
The 30-share BSE index ended 740.19 factors or 1.51 per cent decrease at 48,440.12, and the broader NSE Nifty declined 224.50 factors or 1.54 per cent to 14,324.90.
Maruti was the highest loser within the Sensex pack, shedding round 4 per cent, adopted by Bharti Airtel, HUL, NTPC, Bajaj Finance, UltraTech Cement, ONGC and Reliance Industries.

On the opposite hand, Dr Reddy’s, ICICI Bank, L&T and HDFC have been the gainers.
Domestic equities fell as prevailing issues on the subject of sharp rise in COVID-19 circumstances have clearly dented traders’ sentiments, stated Binod Modi, Head – Strategy at Reliance Securities.
Barring financials and metals, all key sectoral indices led to pink.
Further, futures and choices (F&O) expiry issue additionally contributed to volatility, he famous, including that market capitalisation of home market slipped under Rs 200 trillion first time after February 3, 2021, leading to wealth erosion of over Rs 5 trillion in final two days.
Elsewhere in Asia, bourses in Shanghai and Hong Kong have been within the pink, whereas Tokyo and Seoul ended on a optimistic notice.

Stock exchanges in Europe have been buying and selling with losses in mid-session offers.
Meanwhile, the worldwide oil benchmark Brent crude was buying and selling 1.35 per cent decrease at USD 63.54 per barrel.

The benchmark fairness indices on the BSE and National Stock Exchange (NSE) settled over 1.5 per cent decrease on Wednesday taking cues from their Asian friends and an increase within the home coronavirus (COVID-19) instances.
The S&P BSE Sensex cracked 871.13 factors ( 1.74 per cent) to slide beneath the 50,000-mark and finish at 49,180.31 whereas the Nifty 50 fell 265.35 factors (1.79 per cent) to settle at 14,549.40. Both the indices opened within the purple and buying and selling within the unfavourable territory all through the session.
Market heavyweight Reliance Industries (RIL) was the main contributor to the autumn of the BSE benchmark on Wednesday. It was adopted by ICICI Bank and HDFC twins comprising of HDFC Bank and Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC).

Among the sectoral indices on NSE, the Nifty PSU Bank index was the worst performer of the day falling 3.30 per cent weighed by the shares of UCO Bank, Punjab National Bank and Bank of India. It was carefully adopted by the Nifty Metal index which fell 3.24 per cent dragged by Tata Steel and Hindustan Copper. The key Nifty Bank fell 2.61 per cent weighed by RBL Bank, IDFC First Bank and State Bank of India.
India recorded 47,262 new instances of coronavirus within the final 24 hours. The nation reported 275 deaths on Tuesday, the very best this yr.
“Indian market witnessed across-the-board selling amidst high volatility owing to weak global cues and spike in Covid cases. All sectors barring pharma witnessed selling as second and third wave infections in India and Europe, respectively, are bound to hamper economic recovery. Reports of a potential tax hike in the US also impacted the market sentiment,” mentioned Vinod Nair, Head of Research at Geojit Financial Services.
In the broader market, the S&P BSE MidCap index ended at 20,090.53, down 344.70 factors (1.69 per cent), whereas the S&P BSE SmallCap settled at 20,440.92, down 332.13 factors (1.60 per cent). The volatility index or India VIX ended at 22.4550, up 8.66 per cent.
Global market
Asian shares skidded to a two-week trough on Wednesday and the greenback neared four-month highs as coronavirus lockdowns in Europe and potential US tax hikes hit threat urge for food, resulting in a flight to security.
US and European inventory futures had been weaker in late Asian buying and selling. E-Mini futures for the S&P 500 had been down 0.1 per cent, London’s FTSE futures had been 0.65 per cent decrease whereas Eurostoxx 50 futures misplaced 0.6 per cent.
MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares exterior of Japan fell 1.3 per cent after dropping 0.9 per cent on Tuesday. It went as little as 674.18 factors, a degree final seen on March 9. The index has had a disappointing run in March after 5 straight months of features, as threat property had been earlier spooked by fears inflation will choose up at a faster-than-expected tempo led by profitable coronavirus vaccine rollouts and big US fiscal stimulus.

Japan’s Nikkei stumbled 2 per cent whereas South Korea’s KOSPI slipped 0.4 per cent. Chinese shares had been within the purple for a second day with the blue-chip CSI300 index down 1.65 per cent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng skidded 2.2 per cent.
–world market enter from Reuters