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On 9 March 2020, the Sensex fell by 1,941.67 points, while Nifty-50 broke down by 538 points. The fear of COVID-19 outbreak has created havoc all over the globe and India is no exception. Further, the recent Yes Bank crisis also made the markets fell. [39] The markets ended in red with Sensex closing on 35,634.95 and Nifty-50 on 10,451.45.
The NIFTY 50 is an Indian stock market index that represents the float-weighted average of 50 of the largest Indian companies listed on the National Stock Exchange. [1] [2] Nifty 50 is owned and managed by NSE Indices, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Stock Exchange of India.
NSE's flagship index, the NIFTY 50, is a 50 stock index that is used extensively by investors in India and around the world as a barometer of the Indian capital market. The NIFTY 50 index was launched on April 22, 1996 by NSE with a base value of 1000 on the base date of Nov 3, 1995. [13] [14]
On 18 May 2009, the SENSEX surged up 2,110.79 points to close at 14,285.21, from its previous closing of 12,174.42, for its largest single day rally. Less than a month later, on 4 June 2009, the SENSEX would cross the 15,000 mark. However, the SENSEX remained volatile during the summer of 2009.
NIFTY Bank: 12: Banks: Banking in India: NIFTY Consumer Durables: 15: Manufacturers of home appliances, consumer electronics and fashion accessories NIFTY Financial Services: 20: Banks, NBFCs and insurance companies: NBFC and MFI in India: NIFTY FMCG: 15: Fast-moving consumer goods companies: FMCG in India: NIFTY Healthcare: 20
It contains top 500 listed companies on the NSE. The NIFTY 500 index represents about 96.1% of free float market capitalization and about 96.5% of the total turnover on the National Stock Exchange . [2] NIFTY 500 companies are disaggregated into 72 industry indices. [3] Industry weights in the index reflect industry weights in the market.
In the United States, the term Nifty Fifty was an informal designation for a group of roughly fifty large-cap stocks on the New York Stock Exchange in the 1960s and 1970s that were widely regarded as solid buy and hold growth stocks, or "blue-chip" stocks.
The Federal Reserve has expanded its balance sheet greatly through three quantitative easing periods since the financial crisis of 2007–2008.In September 2019, a spike in the overnight repo market interest rate caused the Federal Reserve to introduce a fourth round of quantitative easing; the balance sheet would expand parabolically following the stock market crash.