Stock markets fall in early trade on relentless foreign fund outflows, H-1B visa fee concerns

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Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty declined successful aboriginal commercialized connected Thursday (September 25, 2025) arsenic relentless overseas money outflows and U.S. H-1B visa interest concerns made investors jittery.

Also, a anemic inclination successful planetary peers drove the home equity markets lower.

Falling for the 5th time running, the 30-share BSE Sensex declined 141.32 points to 81,574.31 successful the opening trade. The 50-share NSE Nifty slipped 22.4 points to 25,034.50.

From the Sensex firms, Tata Motors, Asian Paints, Titan, HCL Tech, Tata Consultancy Services, Maruti and Eternal were among the laggards.

However, Bharat Electronics, Bharti Airtel, ICICI Bank, Larsen & Toubro, Adani Ports and Infosys were among the large gainers.

In the past 4 days, the BSE benchmark tumbled 1,298.33 points oregon 1.56%, and the Nifty declined 366.7 points oregon 1.44%.

Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) offloaded equities worthy ₹2,425.75 crore connected Wednesday (September 24, 2025), according to speech data.

"With Trump's steep tariffs and caller $1,00,000 H-1B visa interest weighing connected sentiment, Nifty faces beardown absorption astatine 25,300," Prashanth Tapse, Senior VP (Research) astatine Mehta Equities Ltd, said.

In Asian markets, South Korea's Kospi quoted little portion Japan's Nikkei 225 index, Shanghai's SSE Composite scale and Hong Kong's Hang Seng traded successful affirmative territory.

US markets ended little connected Wednesday.

"The important resistance connected the marketplace passim this twelvemonth has been the sustained selling by FIIs. The reforms being implemented successful India, on with the debased involvement complaint regime, person the imaginable to propulsion economical maturation and firm net maturation higher. This should bring FIIs backmost to the Indian market," VK Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist astatine Geojit Investments Limited, said.

Published - September 25, 2025 10:17 americium IST

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