Due to continued selling pressure in the heavy weights led by IT, banking and capital goods shares, the broad based Nifty fell further on Tuesday by 51.15 points and marked its closure at 4,449.80.

Tokyo  - Japan's key Nikkei 225 Stock Average opened moderately higher in mixed-trading Wednesday as investors bought back shares on the US dollar's advance against the yen.

New York - Major stock indices were mixed on Tuesday as energy and metals prices plunged and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke again suggested a pause in interest-rate cuts was likely.

Singapore

The BSE Sensex looks to be tempted to touch the 14,000 mark shortly, after witnessing a big loss of 506 points on Monday’s closure.

As compared to Friday’s closing at 15,572.18 points, the market has dropped around 825 points to touch the low of 14,745.71 in today’s session.

After opening on a negative note today, following global market jitters, continued to fall freely and has lost around 320 points to touch the day’s low.

BSE Midcap and smallcap lost 1.10% and 0.86% each.

New Delhi  - India's benchmark Sensex fell Tuesday to a three-month low, dropping 2.7 per cent on heavy selling by funds and investors tracking weak global cues.