After two consecutive sessions of healthy gains, Indian stock market benchmarks, the Sensex and the Nifty 50, suffered significant losses in intraday trade on Tuesday, May 27. The Sensex opened at 82,038.20 against its previous close of 82,176.45 and crashed nearly 900 points, or over 1 per cent, to an intraday low of 81,303.88. The Nifty 50 opened at 24,956.65 against its previous close of 25,001.15 and dropped 1 per cent to an intraday low of 24,765.75.
Around 9:50 AM, the Sensex was 709 points, or 0.86 per cent, down at 81,468, while the Nifty 50 was trading 206 points, or 0.82 per cent, lower at 24,796.
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