Market Round Up The benchmark indices witnessed a huge sell-off across the sectors led by global fall which pushed the Sensex below the psychological 15,000 mark and the Nifty below the 4,400 level. Among other Asian markets, Hang Seng tanked 3.6%; Straits Times down 3.25% and Taiwan Weighted down 1.95%. Kospi fell 2.85, Japan's Nikkei fell 3.1%, the biggest one-day fall in nearly five months. European markets were down 1.8-2.4% and US index futures fell nearly 2%.

All these negative factors hammered the Indian equities badly. The Sensex shed 627 points or fell
4.07% to settle at 14,785 and the Nifty tumbled 4.20% or 192 points to 4388. The broader indices followed the same trend and lost 3-3.9%. All sectoral indices were in the red. Realty, metal, oil & gas and auto stocks were among the worst performers. The Aug July nifty future ended with 13 points discount.

Movers & Shakers-

The realty index on the BSE plunged over 7 %. Indiabulls Real Estate, DLF, HDIL and Parsvnath Developers were down 7-9% each.

In metals, Sterlite Ind, Tata Steel, JSW Steel, Jindal Steel & Power and Hindalco were down between
6.5-7.5 %.

In the oil & gas space, Essar Oil, Cairn India, Aban Off, Reliance Ind and ONGC declined 5-7%.

Auto stocks like Tata Motors, Hero Honda, Bharat Forge, M&M, Ashok Leyland and Maruti Suzuki were down 5-7%.

In the banking pack, ICICI Bank tumbled 5.3%. Axis Bank, PNB, Bank of Baroda and SBI lost 3-4.8%.

Technology stocks like Infosys, Wipro, TCS, Tech Mahindra and HCL Tech were down 3-4.5%

Among the heavyweights, RIL fell over 4.5% while ICICI Bank plunged over 5%.