Sensex Nifty Decline

Earlier, in the first nine months of the calendar year 2011, the BSE Sensex and Nifty had plunged 19.8 per cent and 18.9 per cent, respectively.

VK Vijayakumar said that the escalation of the US-Iran conflict and the consequent 5 per cent spurt in Brent crude overnight to $96 is a negative for markets.

Escalating West Asia tensions kept oil prices elevated and triggered broad-based selloff in domestic equities, pushing benchmark indices to multi-month lows and erasing ₹21.5 trillion in market value

Indian markets logged their steepest fall in eight months as a US-Europe stand-off over Greenland, weak corporate earnings and stalled India-US trade talks deepened investor risk aversion

Nifty slips after hitting fresh intraday high

Pressure was more pronounced in the broader markets, with small-cap shares falling the most

Both indices below 200-DMA; equity investor losses mount to Rs 18.4 trn in 5 days

FIIs have offloaded Indian equities worth a total of Rs 98,086 crore on the stock exchanges till October 24, data from NSDL showed

Pidilite Industries' revenue from operations surged nearly 8 per cent to Rs 2,901.9 crore, as against Rs 2,689 crore in the same quarter a year ago

All BSE sectoral indices closed lower on Thursday, with telecom, power, auto, energy, utilities and realty declining as much as 3.14%

Nifty ended at 14,549, with a decline of 265 points or 1.8 per cent. Sensex ended at 49,180, falling 871 points or 1.7 per cent.

Weakness in index heavyweight Reliance Industries and banking and financial stocks was what dragged indices lower even as IT stocks, without much success, tried to cushion the fall

The BSE benchmark index tanked 3,934.72 points or 13.15 per cent to close at 25,981.24. During the trade, it hit a one-year low of 25,880.83.

Both indices have declined more than 3 per cent this week, amid a sharp pullback by overseas investors

The Sensex tumbled 770 points to end at 36,563, while the Nifty closed at 10,798, down 2 per cent, or 225.35 points

Investors are also likely to take cues from the central bank's policy, corporate earnings and monsoon