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The stock markets in India continued to fall in 2016. By 16 February 2016, the BSE had seen a fall of 26% over the past eleven months, losing 1607 points in four consecutive days of February. The reasons given for this included NPAs of Indian banks, "global weaknesses" and "global factors".
The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in India has been largely disruptive. India's growth in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2020 went down to 3.1% according to the Ministry of Statistics. The Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India said that this drop is mainly due to the coronavirus pandemic effect on the Indian economy.
By November 2022, the Hang Seng was down 36% year-to-date, one of the worst performances among major stock market indices. The decline was exacerbated when Xi Jinping won a third-time and investors feared that he would prioritize state-owned firms over private companies. [22]
This was the second worst single-day fall in the history, where the investors lost ₹6.50 lakh crores ($91 billion). [citation needed] While on 12 March 2020, the index plunged down by 2919.26 points, the second–worst fall in the history, ending in red to a 33-month low at 32,778.14. The fall wiped off ₹11.2 lakh crores wealth ($160 billion).
A sell-off in semiconductors pulled stock indexes away from record highs. The rout was led by Dutch chip firm ASML, which shed 17% on Tuesday. The decline overshadowed better-than-expected bank ...
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The market closed with the KSE 100 index down 3.1%. [193] In India, the BSE SENSEX closed 1,942 points lower at 35,635 while the NSE Nifty 50 was down by 538 points to 10,451. [194] The Washington Post posited that coronavirus-related turmoil could spark a collapse of the corporate debt bubble, sparking and worsening a recession. [195]
The New Indian Express is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper published by the Chennai-based Express Publications. It was founded in 1932 as The Indian Express , under the ownership of Chennai-based P. Varadarajulu Naidu .