Sensex, the BSE benchmark, went down by more than 69 points during the opening trade on a fresh sell-off by some foreign funds and a number of retail investors. This happened due to cues from the very feeble global markets.
During the last two sessions, the 30-share barometer which already lost more than 232 points, and then now with the 69 points or this could also be translated to 0.37% to 18,307.42 in the very first few minutes during the trade.
And the industries that really felt the downfall and were really tremendously affected the most on the fresh sell-off were the stocks of realty, tech, IT, power, metal, and the car industry.
And together with the whole thing the wide-based National Stock Exchange Nifty index also fell down by 22.70 points.
In Asia, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index was trading 1.31% which is lower and Japan’s Nikkei lost 0.84%. Meanwhile, in the US, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 0.79% lower.
