{"id":57861,"date":"2025-03-26T10:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T10:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/03\/26\/sensex-falls-over-700-points-nifty-ends-below-23500\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T10:17:17","slug":"sensex-falls-over-700-points-nifty-ends-below-23500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/03\/26\/sensex-falls-over-700-points-nifty-ends-below-23500\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex Falls Over 700 Points; Nifty Ends Below 23,500"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares fell sharply on Wednesday as caution set in ahead of the April 2 U.S. tariff deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Rising oil prices amid near-term supply tightness also prompted investors to book profits at higher levels after recent string of gains, fueled by foreign capital inflows and optimism about improving domestic macroeconomic conditions. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an elevated baseline anxiety in the <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> despite U.S. President Donald Trump hinting at tariff flexibility for some countries. <\/p>\n<p>It is feared that potential U.S. tariff policies could fuel inflation and further strain global trade.<\/p>\n<p>Also, deteriorating U.S. consumer confidence in the face of tariff fears pointed to a stagflationary scenario, where economic growth slows while inflation remains elevated. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark S&amp;P\/BSE Sensex fell 728.69 points, or 0.93 percent, to 77,288.50, snapping a seven-session winning streak. <\/p>\n<p>The broader NSE Nifty index ended down 181.80 points, or 0.77 percent, at 23,486.85 ahead of the impending expiry of monthly derivatives contracts. <\/p>\n<p>The BSE mid-cap and small-cap indexes ended down 0.7 percent and 1.5 percent, respectively. <\/p>\n<p>The market breadth was negative on the BSE, with 3,114 shares declining while 922 shares advanced and 107 shares ended unchanged. <\/p>\n<p>Among the prominent losers, Axis Bank, Infosys, Bajaj Finance, Tech Mahindra, Zomato and NTPC shed 2-3 percent. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>Sensex Falls Over 700 Points; Nifty Ends Below 23,500<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-03-26 10:17:17<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares fell sharply on Wednesday as caution set in ahead of the April 2 U.S. tariff deadline. Rising oil prices amid near-term supply tightness also prompted investors to book&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1535139262971-c51845709a48?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw=&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=1950&q=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/57862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}