Investors Lose Nearly Rs 10 Lakh Crore As Last Hour Panic Grips Dalal Street
Investors lost nearly Rs 10 lakh crore in trade on Tuesday as benchmark indices ended at a two-month low amid a selloff from foreign investors.
India's benchmark indices Nifty 50 and S&P BSE Sensex ended 1.25% and 1.15% lower, respectively, on Monday, with Nifty PSU Bank and Nifty Realty being the top sectoral losers.
During the last leg of the trade, the Nifty 50 fell as much as 1.35% to 24,445, and the Sensex fell 1.23% to a low of 80,149.
Foreign institutional investors have been net sellers for the 16th consecutive day and have offloaded nearly Rs 93,500 crore since Sept. 27, according to provisional data from NSE.
So far in October, global funds have offloaded nearly Rs 82,500 crore, the highest-ever outflow in a single month. The previous highest monthly outflows of Rs 61,973 crore were seen during the Covid-19 selloff in March 2020.
Bearish sentiment continued to dominate the domestic market today amid heightened volatility, with small and midcap stocks taking the biggest hit, according to Vinod Nair, Head of Research, Geojit Financial Services.
The recent sharp rise in US bond yields signals diminished expectations for aggressive rate cuts by the US Fed, also affecting fund flows to EMs, he said. "In the short term, this bearish outlook may persist due to sluggish earnings growth trends."
The benchmark indices, NSE Nifty 50 and BSE Sensex, have fallen by about 5.56% and 5.33%, respectively, in the last 16 days after the key gauges hit fresh highs.
The volatility gauge, India NSE VIX, rose 5.14% on Tuesday to 14.47, the highest level since Oct. 19.
Reliance Industries Ltd., HDFC Bank Ltd., and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. were top laggards in the Nifty 50 index. ICICI Bank Ltd., Bharti Airtel Ltd., and Infosys Ltd. gained to cushion the losses in the benchmark gauge.
The broker market faced more heat as the NSE Nifty Midcap 150 and the Nifty Smallcap 250 ended 2.57% and 5.27% lower, respectively.
The price-to-earnings ratio of the Nifty is valued at 19.2, while that of the small-cap and the mid-cap index is at 33.3 and 44.4, respectively.
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