New Delhi: The equity index fell on Friday with BSE Sensex benchmarks falling more than 850 points dragged by banking and automatic stock.
The 30-share BSE index pointed 889 points or 1.54 percent to close at 57,012; While the wider NSE settled 263 points or 1.53 percent lower at 16,985.
The top losers in the sensex package include Indusind Bank, Bank boxes, Hul, Titan, HDFC and Bajaj Fincerv with their shares falling as much as 4.89 percent.
Diding the trend, the stock jumped during the day with Infosys earned 2.84 percent, HCl Tech closed 0.96 percent rose while the TCS was finished 0.16 percent higher.
On the NSE platform, except for Nifty, all sub-indices are red finished with good media, Bank PSU, Realty falls up to 4.74 percent.
Here are the main reasons behind the plunge of today: * Increasing Omicron Casesauto, banking, and financial shares slumped with fears that the case of omicron that spread quickly will thwart economic recovery.
The selling pressure was witnessed throughout the board as 14 of the 30 scripts in the BSE index fell more than 2 percent.
At 4 pm, India has reported 99 Omicron cases, with 32 of them noted from Maharashtra.
* Concerns for the warning of global inflation from the main central bank throughout the world over the increase in inflation scuting investors.
The Bank of England on Thursday became the world’s first major central bank to raise interest rates since the Pandemic Coronavirus hammered the global economy, and warned higher inflation after the Federal Reserve indicated that raging inflation was the biggest risk.
“With Bank England to become the first major central bank to raise interest rates on Thursday, after the Fed Hawkish Stance, there was an increase in the realization that inflation changed more durable than what was considered earlier,” Vijayakumar, the head of the financial strategy in Geojit told the PTI news agency.
Even the Bank of Japan on Friday circlated several emergency funding pandemic but maintaining ultra-loose policies and expanding financial assistance for small companies, strengthening the expectations will remain among the closest central banks for the future.
* Fiis continues to withdraw foreign institutional investors (FIIS) remains a clean seller in the capital market, because they sell shares worth 1,468.71 crore on Thursday, according to stock exchange data.
“There are three main headwinds to the market now – omicron variants are fast, nonstop sales by Fiis and Hawkish central bank,” VIJYAKUAR VK, Head of investment strategist at Geojit Financial Services to the PTI news agency.
FII has sold $ 728 million in Indian equity this week and $ 1.73 billion this month, according to Refinitiv Eikon.
* Weak global, the main stock market fell when investors became worried about surging omicron cases and wrestling with the hawkish round this week from the main central bank in fighting inflation.
European stocks fell, Asian shares were closed close to the lowest position and Wall Street was seen to open weaker after the previous bruising session led by falling sharply in stock technology.
US stocks have now revolved all the increases from Wednesday when the market welcomed the Federal Reserve’s commitment to overcome the increasing inflation with faster bond tapering and interest rates rose next year.
Chinese Blue Chips lost 1.59 percent and suffered their worst week in three months, while the technology company index registered in Hong Kong reached a low record, was not assisted by News Washington placed investment and export restrictions on dozens of Chinese companies.
* US results fell in a further sign of a careful mood, the results in the 10-year benchmark US Treasury record fell to low with 1.409 percent, while the two-year results were stable at 0.623 percent, after the highest launch recently.
(With input from the agency)
Sensex sank 889 points; Nifty ends below 17,000: the main reason
