Sensex tanks 610 points; Nifty slips below 26k on profit booking, foreign fund outflows

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Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty nosedived connected Monday (December 8, 2025) aft 2 consecutive days of gains, arsenic investors rushed to instrumentality profits amid the unabated selling of stocks by overseas investors.

Analysts said investors turned antiaircraft up of this week’s U.S. Federal Reserve argumentation decision, which further weakened the sentiment.

The 30-share BSE Sensex plunged by 609.68 points, oregon 0.71%, to adjacent astatine 85,102.69. During the day, it plummeted by 836.78 points, oregon 0.97%, to deed the intraday debased of 84,875.59.

Snapping a two-day gaining streak, the 50-share NSE Nifty declined by 225.90 points, oregon 0.86%, to settee astatine 25,960.55. In the intraday session, it dropped 294.2 points, oregon 1.12%, to deed a debased of 25,892.25.

Among the Sensex constituents, Bharat Electronics Ltd, Eternal, Trent, Tata Steel, Bajaj Finance, Adani Ports, Bajaj Finserv, State Bank of India, PowerGrid, Asian Paints, Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles, Titan, NTPC, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Larsen & Toubro and Bharti Airtel were among the laggards.

Tech Mahindra, HCL Technologies, Reliance Industries and HDFC Bank were the lone gainers.

“The marketplace experienced a broad-based decline, slipping beneath the 26,000-mark arsenic investors turned cautious up of this week’s Fed argumentation decision,” Vinod Nair, Head of Research, Geojit Investments Ltd, said.

He added that contempt robust home maturation figures and the RBI’s caller complaint cut, short-term sentiment remains overshadowed by planetary monetary argumentation concerns, persistent FII outflows, and currency depreciation.

“Volatility was further amplified by a surge successful Japanese enslaved yields to multi-year highs, sparking fears of a imaginable unwinding of the yen transportation trade, Nair said.

Other Asian markets mostly closed connected a affirmative note, with South Korea’s KOSPI rising 1.34%, Shanghai’s SSE Composite scale climbing by 0.54%, and Japan’s Nikkei 225 benchmark expanding by 0.13%, portion Hong Kong’s Hang Seng scale fell 1.23%.

The European markets were trading connected a mixed note. Wall Street ended higher connected Friday (December 5).

Meanwhile, overseas organization investors (FIIs) offloaded equities worthy ₹438.90 crore connected Friday (December 5), portion Domestic Institutional Investors (DIIs) bought stocks worthy ₹4,189.17 crore, according to speech data.

Brent crude, the planetary lipid benchmark, fell 0.61% to $63.37 per barrel.

On Friday (December 5), the 30-share BSE Sensex benchmark precocious 447.05 points to settee astatine 85,712.37, portion the 50-share NSE Nifty climbed 152.70 points to adjacent astatine 26,186.45.

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