Benchmark Sensex tumbled over 453 points -- its biggest single session fall in one year -- to close at 33,149.35 today on widespread selling triggered by widening fiscal deficit concerns. Official data showed the country's fiscal deficit at the end of October hit 96.1 per cent of the budget estimates for 2017-18. The Sensex, after a gap down opening at 33,542.50, continued its slide to touch a low of 33,108.72. This was its biggest single session fall since November 15 last year, when it had lost 514.19 points. This was its biggest single day fall since September 27 this year, when it had lost 135.75 points.

Source: dna November 30, 2017 10:55 UTC