IT rout pushes Nifty below 23,400; Sensex drops over 300 points
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Domestic benchmark equity indices opened lower on Thursday, dragged by IT stocks after Wipro forecast a decline in revenue for the April-June quarter amid tariff turmoil. The BSE Sensex was down 303 points, or 0.39%, at 76,741, while the Nifty50 slipped 114 points, or 0.49%, to 23,323 around 9:33 am. From the Sensex pack, HCL Tech, Tech Mahindra, Tata Steel, Infosys, and TCS were the top laggards, falling up to 2.5%. On the other hand, ICICI Bank, Bharti Airtel, Sun Pharma, NTPC, and HDFC Bank opened with gains. Meanwhile, Wipro dropped 5.5% in early trade after missing fourth-quarter revenue estimates and forecasting a 1.5% to 3.5% revenue decline in the current quarter. On the sectoral front, Nifty IT fell 2.2%, with Wipro, LTIMindtree, Mphasis, and Persistent declining up to 6%. Nifty Auto and Metal indices also opened nearly 1% lower. Live Events Indian shares came under additional pressure after US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell...