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Sensex fell 0.8% to a 52-week low

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-10-05 · market close

BSE Sensex closed at 71,909.70 on 2026-10-01, fell 0.8% on the session and is -15.6% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

India's BSE Sensex fell 0.79 per cent to close at 71,909.70 in its most recent session, dated October 1, a level that is also its 52-week low. The index sits 16.15 per cent below its 52-week high of 85,762.01 and below both its 50-day average of 76,297.32 and its 200-day average of 78,365.52.

The weakness has built over the month. The index is down 6.54 per cent over the past month, 2.27 per cent over the week and 7.53 per cent over three months, and it is 15.62 per cent lower so far this year.

Global peers were mostly higher on their latest closes, with dates that differ. The S&P 500 rose 0.73 per cent, the Nasdaq Composite 1.19 per cent and the Dow 0.49 per cent in their October 2 session. European indices closed higher on that date: the DAX 1.17 per cent, the Euro Stoxx 50 1.02 per cent, the CAC 40 0.79 per cent and the FTSE 100 0.32 per cent. The Nikkei, whose latest close is dated October 5, gained 2.27 per cent, and the ASX 200 added 0.44 per cent. In Asia on October 2, the KOSPI rose 0.46 per cent and the TAIEX 0.25 per cent, while the Hang Seng fell 2.6 per cent. India's Nifty 50, on the same October 1 close as the Sensex, fell 0.88 per cent.

On the news, The Federal reported the market extended a losing streak to four sessions and the Sensex hit a fresh 52-week low. ETV Bharat attributed the fall to elevated oil prices and foreign fund outflows, and NDTV Profit described a sharp single-day drop that took the Nifty 50 below 22,300. theweek.in pointed to several factors behind the decline. Moneycontrol noted the market was shut on October 2 for Gandhi Jayanti, and BBN Times said the index held at 71,909.70 as global cues improved.

What the data does not establish is a single cause. It records the size of the fall, that four straight down sessions preceded it, where the index sits in its range, and the factors the headlines cite, without proving which one drove the session.

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How this article was made: Strota assembled the market data above (the index's price history, same-session peer-market moves and public headlines) and an AI model wrote the narrative strictly from that evidence — it is not permitted to add outside facts or numbers. Every figure comes from the underlying market/public data.