Author Archives: Ben Tomas

If you’re a stockholder in the stock market, the occurrences of the last couple of days must have caused a large amount of concern. Remember the black Tuesday of Jan twenty-two when the market plunged by at least eleven percent in the first few minutes of trade. Twitchy sellers pushed the panic trigger, sending the markets into a free fall, till it hit the circuit breaker, which mechanically caused all trading to come to a halt, both, at the BSE and NSE. The thirty stock Sensex lost about 2273 points during the daytime, before some worth purchasing made it recover some losses. Eventually , it closed the day at 16,729.94 points, still down by 875.41 points. The prospects for the share market appears to have changed overnite. Let’s have a quick look at the prime factors answerable for such an extreme fall in the markets. Continue reading →