Sensex crashes 800 points, Nifty dips over 200 points over Trump's tariff fears

Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty began falling again on Wednesday as they both fell nearly 1% each to hit new lows for the day. This marks the sixth consecutive session of decline for both the indices. Sensex was down over 860 points at around 10:05 am to 75,430.23 while Nifty was down nearly 260 points to 22,814.50.

Except for the Nifty IT index, all other sectoral indices were in the red. Nifty Realty, which experienced a massive dip even on Tuesday, was down 2.62% and Nifty Media was down 2.53%. Nifty IT showed marginal gains with a 0.28% rise. Nifty Smallcap 250 index was down over 3% while Nifty Microcap 250 index dipped 2.92%.