Market crash: Sensex sinks 1,279 pts from day's high; Nifty tests 22,400 - Business Standard

The Sensex fell roughly 1,279 points from its intraday high while the Nifty tested the 22,400 level, according to the headline from Business Standard. The move reflects a sharp intraday reversal in Indian equities, where a broad selloff pulled benchmark indices well off their session peaks. Such swings typically transmit through risk-appetite and foreign portfolio flow channels, as global investors reduce exposure to emerging markets when volatility rises, and through a repricing of domestic growth expectations that weighs on large-cap index heavyweights. Banking, financial, and other high-beta index constituents tend to be most sensitive to these flows, given their weighting in both the Sensex and Nifty. Traders will be watching the next session's opening behavior around the 22,400 Nifty support zone and the trend in foreign institutional investor net flows for confirmation of whether the selling pressure is persisting.

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