Stock Market Crash today, Closing Bell Updates, October 3: The India stock market bled heavily on Thursday, October 3, as a fresh flare up in Iran-Israel tensions soured Dalal Street sentiment. The BSE Sensex index, today, crashed 1,769 points, or 2 per cent, to end at 82,497 levels. The Nifty50, on the other hand, broke the 25,300-mark to close at 25,250, down 547 points or 2.12 per cent, making investors poorer by Rs 9.6 trillion.
The BSE Sensex index hit an intraday low of 82,434, while the 50-share Nifty index plummeted to 25,230.30 during the day.
Twenty eight of the 30 Sensex stocks and 48 of the 50 Nifty stocks nursed losses on Thursday, the day of the weekly F&O expiry. Among individual stocks, BPCL, Shriram Finance, L&T, Tata Motors, Reliance Industries, Asian Paints, Axis Bank, Eicher Motors, Maruti Suzuki, Tata Consumer Products, and Bajaj Finance tumbled between 3.5 per cent and 5 per cent.
JSW Steel and ONGC were the only large-cap gainers today.
Meanwhile, in the broader markets, the Nifty MidCap index dropped 2.2 per cent and the Nifty SmallCap index skid 1.9 per cent. Fear gauge, India VIX, soared 9.4 per cent today.
Among sectors, all indices saw bloodbath led by the Nifty Realty (down 4.6 per cent), the Nifty Auto index (2.7 per cent), and Nifty Private Bank index (2.5 per cent).