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Equity markets extended their decline into second straight day, but managed to end sharply off lows on Tuesday, as private banks reversed losses in the second half of the session.
The S&P BSE Sensex, which had hit a low of over 600 points at 58,298 levels in the intra-day deals, closed the session at 58,576, down 388 points or 0.66 per cent. On the NSE, the Nifty50 bounced back from the low of 17,442 and ended at 17,530, down 145 points or 0.8 per cent.
Axis Bank, Kotak Bank, Maruti Suzuki, Power Grid, SBI Life, and ICICI Bank were the top winners on the benchmark indices, rising upwards of 0.5 per cent each. However, losses in Hindalco, Coal India, Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Grasim, L&T, Bajaj Auto, BPCL, Wipro, Tech M, JSW Steel, UPL, Bharti Airtel, and RIL put a lid on recovery. All these shares skid between 1.8 per cent and 6 per cent.
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Sectorally, the Nifty Bank and Private Bank indices advanced 0.4 per cent each while the Nifty Metal index slumped 2.7 per cent.
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ata Consultancy Services ended mildly lower on the BSE on Tuesday in an otherwise weak market after the information technology (IT) major reported its highest-ever order book and crossed the revenue milestone of Rs 50,000 crore in the last quarter of 2021-22 (Q4FY22). The company also logged highest incremental revenue addition of Rs 350 crore in a year.
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Bandhan Bank hit six-month high of Rs 335 in an otherwise weak market, up 4 per cent on the BSE in Tuesday's intra-day trade. The stock of the private sector lender rebounded 6 per cent from its intra-day low of Rs 317.40.
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European markets sank Tuesday morning as traders monitored heaving selling in the banking sector, and looked ahead to key central bank meetings and US inflation prints. The pan-European Euro Stoxx 600 index was down 1.2 per cent in early deals, with the German DAX dropping 1.8 per cent and the banking sector falling 2.3 per cent.
On Wall Street, Nasdaq Composite Futures were mildly higher, while Dow Jones and S&P500 Futures were up to 0.12 per cent lower.
Earlier in Asia, Japan's Nikkei slipped nearly 2 per cent, South Korea's Kospi dropped 1 per cent, and Australia's ASX200 fell 0.4 per cent. China's CSI300 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng, however, rose up to 2 per cent.
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