Sensex tumbles over 950 points: Top 5 factors behind Friday's market crash

Bearish global sentiments along with renewed fears of Covid-19 triggered sharp selloff across domestic equities on Friday. While the S&P BSE Sensex cracked over 950 points to close below 60,000 levels, the 50-packed index crashed over 300 points to close below 17,900 levels.
 

Broader markets, too, bore the brunt of intense selloff and underperformed benchmark indices. Nifty MidCap 100 and Nifty SmallCap 100 indices tanked up to 4 per cent in trade.
 

All sectors, meanwhile, drowned in the sea of red, with Nifty Media, Nifty Metal, Nifty Realty, and Nifty PSU Bank indices declining up to 6 per cent.
 

However,