Moody's slashed its estimate of India's GDP growth for calendar year 2020 to 2.5% from an earlier estimate of 5.3%

Share price of YES Bank rose up to 20% to Rs 31.95 compared to the previous close of Rs 26.55 today

At the interbank foreign exchange the rupee opened at 74.60, registering a rise of 56 paise over its previous close.

BSE 30-share barometer Sensex ended 1,410 points higher at 29,946 and NSE 50-share index Nifty closed at 8,641, rising 323 points.

Share price of IndusInd Bank zoomed 45% to Rs 436.7 compared to the previous close of Rs 301.20 on BSE

Citing the 21-day country lockdown, ANMI had written to market regulator Sebi to ask State governments to declare operations of stock market broking houses as essential services.

At the interbank foreign exchange the rupee opened at 75.90, then gained further ground and touched a high of 75.81 against the US dollar, registering a rise of 13 paise over its previous close.

Market breadth favoured advances with the advance-decline ratio at 3:2. Only 4 out of 30 stocks on Sensex and 11 of 50 scrips on Nifty closed in the red.

The share price of the lender has fallen 51% in one week, 15% in one month and 36% since the beginning of the year. The stock has been highly volatile today with an intraday volatility of 15.24%.

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PM Narendra Modi has announced a 21-day lockdown from March 25 to contain the rising number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the country

Nifty50 index fund invests in 50 blue-chip companies that are part of the Nifty index, while Nifty Next50 invests whereas next 50 companies as per the market capitalisation

Investor sentiment was hit when several companies stopped manufacturing in their plants and shut offices till March 31 complying with government orders

Following the development, shares of HUL opened with a gain of 5.52% against the previous close of Rs 1,872 on BSE.

As per today's closing figures, Sensex has fallen 13,571 points or 33.6% in a month. Similarly, Nifty has declined 4,076 points or 34.36% during the period.

At the interbank foreign exchange the rupee opened at 76.02, registering a rise of 18 paise over its previous close.

Market capitalisation on BSE fell to Rs 101.86 lakh crore today compared to Friday's close of Rs 116.09 lakh crore amid weakness in global markets on coronavirus concerns

IndusInd Bank declined 70.94% in the last one-month on Sensex, followed by over 50% decline in Axis Bank, Bajaj Finance and around 44-42% fall in ICICI Bank, Mahindra & Mahindra, SBI, Larsen & Toubro and Tata Steel.

Sensex lost 2,991 points or 10% which led to the triggering of circuit breaker on BSE and NSE. Nifty too declined  9.40% or 822 points to 7,923 in early trade

While Sensex plunged 2,600 points to 2,7608, Nifty lost 720 points to 8,000. All Sensex stocks were trading in the red.