Default Roils Investors in Best-Performing Asia Stock Market
- NSE Volatility Index climbs to highest level since February
- India’s IL&FS missed payments on three note series on Friday
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India’s benchmark equity index fell the most since March, as turmoil in non-bank finance companies deepened after a troubled lender disclosed further missed debt payments late on Friday and panic seeped into Asia’s best-performing stock market.
The S&P BSE Sensex declined 1.5 percent at close in Mumbai, its fifth day of losses, with a gauge of financial shares tumbling 3.5 percent. Investors remained jittery about financial firms after a recent default by Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd. A gauge of investor anxiety surged to its highest level in more than seven months, after the Sensex on Friday had its wildest intraday move in more than four years.