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Sensex fell 1.4% to a 52-week low

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

BSE Sensex closed at 71,593.24 on 2026-10-08, fell 1.4% on the session and is -16.0% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

The BSE Sensex closed down 1.44% at 71593.24 on 2026-10-08, and that close is also its 52-week low. In other words, India's benchmark finished the session at the very bottom of its one-year range, 16.52% below its 52-week high of 85762.01.

The index is down 1.22% over the past week, 5.96% over the month, 6.71% over three months and 15.99% so far this year. It trades below both its 50-day moving average of 75969.9 and its 200-day moving average of 78115.48. A moving average is the average closing level over the stated number of sessions; sitting under both is read as a broad downtrend.

Peer markets moved on different dates. The US benchmarks rose on 2026-10-09, the S&P 500 by 0.59%, the Nasdaq 0.64% and the Dow 0.83%. On 2026-10-08 the FTSE 100 eased 0.16%, the DAX 1.18%, the CAC 40 0.51% and the Euro Stoxx 50 0.87%, while the Nikkei fell 1.42%, the Hang Seng 1.43%, the Shanghai index 0.79%, the KOSPI 2.62% and the TAIEX 0.99%. The Nifty 50 lost 1.64% on 2026-10-08, and the ASX 200 gained 0.64% on 2026-10-09. Each is that market's most recent close, not a single shared session.

The headlines told a mixed story. The Times of India reported the Sensex tanking over 1,000 points with the Nifty50 at 22,231 and listed reasons for the fall, while The Federal described a 1,045-point drop to a 21-month low. The Economic Times wrap named ITC, TCS, BSE and RIL among the session's gainers and losers, and Upstox noted the index jumping 400 points on one day and dropping over 300 points on another, with the Nifty50 opening at 22,314 and later at 22,599. Those are the headlines' accounts rather than a settled explanation.

The data shows the index fell to a fresh one-year low and that peers were mostly weaker on the same date. It does not establish a single driver for the decline.

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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.