One Broker Broke the Market
Friday's debacle on the Nifty (aka Nifty 50, India's benchmark free-float market cap index) resulted in a brief erasure of $58bn from the National Stock Exchange (drop of 16% in the index value). The culprits, Emkay Global Financial Services Ltd., admitted $126m volume-worth of orders triggered the problem, which fired off circuit breakers on the National Stock Exchange (wrong data entry on a basket sell order).
Protected by the Circuit Breakers
The NSX (whose corporate HQ is in Bandra, Mumbai) triggers circuit breakers when there is a 10% or larger move (check out this guide to Asia circuit breakers).
Whose in the Nifty Fifty
Stocks in the "Nifty 50" include Tata Steel, GAIL (India) Ltd, Axis Bank Ltd., ICICI Bank Ltd and Jaiprakash Associates.
Many of these stocks (Tata Steel, for example) are also part of the Sensex (or BSE 30) which are the 30 largest stocks on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Friday's debacle on the Nifty (aka Nifty 50, India's benchmark free-float market cap index) resulted in a brief erasure of $58bn from the National Stock Exchange (drop of 16% in the index value). The culprits, Emkay Global Financial Services Ltd., admitted $126m volume-worth of orders triggered the problem, which fired off circuit breakers on the National Stock Exchange (wrong data entry on a basket sell order).
Protected by the Circuit Breakers
The NSX (whose corporate HQ is in Bandra, Mumbai) triggers circuit breakers when there is a 10% or larger move (check out this guide to Asia circuit breakers).
Whose in the Nifty Fifty
Stocks in the "Nifty 50" include Tata Steel, GAIL (India) Ltd, Axis Bank Ltd., ICICI Bank Ltd and Jaiprakash Associates.
Many of these stocks (Tata Steel, for example) are also part of the Sensex (or BSE 30) which are the 30 largest stocks on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
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