Indian shares log worst session in 2 months as deepening Mideast conflict alarms investors
Updates with closing levels at 3:30 P.M. IST
By Bharath Rajeswaran and Hritam Mukherjee
Oct 3 (Reuters) - A deep selloff pushed Indian shares to their worst session in two months on Thursday, as anxious investors worried about ripple effects on the domestic economy from the widening Middle East conflict.
The Nifty 50 index .NSEI closed 2.12%lower at 25,250.1points, while the S&P BSE Sensex .BSESN shed 2.1% to 82,497.1. The benchmarks posted their worstsession since early August.
Asian peers outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS dipped 1.25% asMiddle East tensions curbedrisk sentiment after Iran fired ballistic missiles at Israel earlier this week, stoking worries that crude supplies from the world's biggest producing region may be disrupted.
"The Middle East tensions have made investors very nervous, with the rhetoric from both Israel and Iran spurring worries of further escalation, which is triggering risk aversion and profit booking," said Saurabh Jain, assistant vice president of research of retail equities at SMC Global Securities.
A jump inoil prices on the day triggereddeclines in domestic paintmakers, tyre-makers and oil refiners, which count crude or crude-linked products as theirraw materials.
Foreign outflows from India to China could also intensify in the near term due to China's recent announcement of stimulus measures to boost its economy, adding to the pressure on domestic equities, analysts said.
Jefferies has increased its weightage of China in its Asia Pacific ex-Japan portfolio, trimming itsweightage of India. HSBC has also upgraded China stocks to "overweight" from "neutral" after the stimulusmeasures.
On the day, only two of the Nifty 50 constituents settled higher while all the 13 major sectoral indexes declined.
Realty .NIFTYREAL and auto .NIFTYAUTO fell 4.4% and 2.9%, while high-weightagefinancials .NIFTYFIN dropped 2.4%.
Among individual stocks, consumer goods firm Dabur DABU.NS lost 6.3% after it forecastits first quarterly revenue decline since 2020.
The broader, more domestically-focused small- .NIFSMCP100 and mid-caps .NIFMDCP100 lost about 2% each.
About 76% of the total 2,912 shares trading on NSEdeclined, as the market breadth turned in favour of the bears.
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Reporting by Hritam Mukherjee and Bharath Rajeswaran in Bengaluru; Editing by Sumana Nandy and Sonia Cheema
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