What is a Stock Market Crash? A Stock Market Crash is a doubled-digit fall of stocks and eventually resulting in Indices' fall due to fear of the economic situation getting weak. This fear causes panic among investors so they start selling their holdings which crashes the market. Crashes make an impact on the economy. In stock market crashes significant amount of wealth is abolished. In stock prices faces huge fall(s) in a day or days like the one seen in recent times like the COVID - 19 Stock Market Crash, Sensex on 23 March 2021 saw a fall of 3,934 points(13.15%), and Nifty 50 fell 1,135 points(12.98%), Indices in these days saw huge falls because o which they ended at their lowest levels since 2016. But in less than 8 Months markets recovered. COVID-19 Market Crash COVID - 19 Stock Market Crash can be said as one of the biggest stock market crashes in history. Indian Incides(mainly Nifty 50 and Sensex) fell about 33% - 35%. 41 lakh in youth in India lost jobs. The unemployment ...
What is Nifty 50 and Sensex? Sensex was launched in 1986 by BSE and Nifty 50 was launched on 22 April in 1996. Nifty 50 and Sensex are the indices of India. Nifty 50 represents the top 50 companies of India listed on NSE and Sensex shows represent the top 30 companies of India on BSE. Indices represent the country's stock markets. Almost every having a portfolio in the same market of indices can compare their portfolio returns with indices and even mutual also compare their fund returns with indices. How to Nifty is calculated? Step 1: Calculate IWF(Investible Weight Factors) IWF is a unit of floating stock available for trading. IWF is total shares minus (addition of shareholding of the promoter, government holding in the capacity o strategic investor, shares held by promoters through ADR/GDRs, cross-holdings by associates or group companies, Employee Welfare Trust and Shares under lock-in category) and the answer is then divided by total shares. For this, an exa...