India's equity markets slipped over one percent today,24th April 2020 due to weak global cues and dragged by private banks and financials.
Among individual stocks, ICICI Bank and Bajaj Finance (both down 4%) were the top laggards while HDFC twins were also down 2 percent each.
At the index level, the S&P BSE Sensex was down 505 points, or 1.6 percent, at 31,360 levels and the Nifty50 hovered around 9,200. All the Nifty sectoral indices were in the red, led by Nifty Private Bank and Nifty Financial indexes, both down 3 percent each.