Sensex and Nifty fell heavily for the second consecutive day to close lower after partially recovering in the late afternoon trade. BSE Sensex ended down points 296 points at 31,626.39 points and NSE Nifty settled 91 points lower at 9,872.6 points. The key equity indices extended last week’s losses and plummeted drastically today, the benchmark Sensex lost as much as 448 points to hit a day’s low of 31,474.56 points to a one-month low and broader Nifty 50 shed 148 points to hit the day’s low of 9,816.05 points in the intraday.

Mumbai: Indian benchmark indices posted their biggest daily percentage decline in 10 months on Friday, as a North Korean threat to carry out a hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific Ocean rattled global markets.

The Indian government’s stimulus spending plan and jitters that it would widen the fiscal deficit also contributed to the decline, which was led by bank stocks.

Stocks ended the week on a distinctly bearish note after the Sensex tanked 447 points — the biggest fall in over nine months - and the Nifty ended below the 10,000 level today as renewed geopolitical worries about North Korea rattled investors.

The rupee hit near six-month low against the dollar in day trade which dampened the sentiment further.

Sensex and Nifty opened flat on Thursday after the US Federal Reserve left rates unchanged and signaled one more hike by the year-end. BSE Sensex gained 6 points to open at 32406.42 points, NSE Nifty lost 1.5 points to open at 10,139.6 points. In line with expectations, the Fed said it would begin in October to cut its roughly $4.2 trillion in US Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities holdings by initially cutting up to $10 billion each month from the amount of maturing securities it reinvests.

The benchmark BSE Sensex rebounded by over 93 points in early trade on gains in bluechips such as RIL, L&T and ITC amid a rising trend in Asia.

The 30-share index was trading higher by 93.02 points at 32,495.39. Sectoral indices led by capital goods, power,consumer durables, realty, metal, healthcare and oil & gas were trading in the positive terrain by gaining up to 0.95 per cent.

The BSE Sensex turned flat paring initial gains, easing 16.36 points at 32,407.40 following mild bouts of profit-booking in capital goods, power, energy and financials sectors amid lower Asian trend.

Broader Nifty was trading below the 10,150-level.

Key indices on Monday open in green with Nifty reaching up to record high of 10,154.35 and Sensex gains180.15 points to trade at 32,452.76 following Asian markets which hit 10-year high on Monday.

At 9:17 am, the S&P BSE Sensex was trading at 32,458, up 185 points while the broader Nifty50 index was ruling at 10,150, up 65 points.

Indian markets ended little changed after a volatile trading session on Friday, as global markets weakened amid elevated military tensions over a new missile launch by North Korea.

The BSE Sensex closed up 30.68 points, or 0.1%, at 32,272.61 points and the National Stock Exchange’s Nifty edged down 1.20 points, or 0.01%, to close at 10,085.40.

The benchmark BSE Sensex dropped by over 68 points in opening trade today, breaking its six- session winning streak due to profit booking in power, metal, consumer durables and healthcare stocks amid weak Asian leads after North Korea launched another missile over Japan.

The 30-share index fell by 68.45 points or 0.21 per cent to 32,173.48. The gauge had rallied 579.96 points in the previous six sessions.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has moved higher by 10% to Rs 146 on the back of heavy volumes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe on Thursday laid foundation stone for India's first bullet train between Ahmedabad and Mumbai.

Till 11:00 AM; a combined 23.1 million equity shares changed hands against an average 3.2 million shares were traded daily in past two weeks on BSE and NSE.