The BSE Sensex plunged almost 800 points on Friday amid heavy selling in frontline stocks, almost all sectoral indices ended in the red and the market breadth in the negative territory with 60 per cent of the stocks declining.

Dear Trader… Markets traded under pressure and lost over a percent, tracking feeble global cues. The tone was negative from the beginning and pressure in the heavyweights across sectors pushed the index lower as the day progressed. Eventually, the Nifty futur index settled around the day’s low at 22,602.50 level.