Why stocks crashed today
The BSE Sensex, Indias most popular stock market index, fell by 1,939 points or 3.8% today to close the day at 49,050 points.Why did this happen? Stock prices in India are very closely related to how stock prices move in the United States (US), a day earlier. Yesterday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the premier stock market index in the US, fell by 560 points or 1.75% to 31,402 points.
This fall was primarily on account of the US government bond yields going up. The US government sells bonds…
