Overview
- At the close on Tuesday, the Sensex fell 1,066 points to 82,180.47 and the Nifty dropped 353 points to 25,232, marking a broad-based decline across the market.
- Market breadth deteriorated sharply, with hundreds of stocks in the red and as many as 611 names on the BSE touching 52‑week lows in one tally.
- Estimates of total BSE market capitalization loss varied across reports, ranging from about ₹7.67 lakh crore to ₹10.22 lakh crore, reflecting different snapshots during the sell-off.
- Selling pressure hit large, mid and small caps, with steep declines reported in names such as Bajaj Finance, Infosys, Reliance, L&T, Sun Pharma, Oberoi Realty, Data Patterns and Ola Electric.
- Flows data showed foreign institutional investors were net sellers of about ₹3,200.98 crore in the previous session while domestic institutions were net buyers of roughly ₹4,007.35 crore, and sectoral weakness included a drop of more than 4% in realty and around 2.39% in chemicals.