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While Adani Total Gas, Adani Energy, and Adani Transmission shares plunged 20%-the lowest levels of the day, Adani Ports and Adani Enterprises dropped 16% and 19%, respectively. Adani Power and Adani Wilmer shares dropped 5% each.

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Adani Group did not immediately respond to Reuters request for comment. It has dismissed the Hindenburg report as baseless and said it was considering whether to take legal action against the New York-based firm.

Globally, T+2 system is still the most dominant one with most of the developed markets such as the US, Japan and Germany following the longer settlement cycle. Even the majority of the emerging markets follow the same standard.

The Sensex closed at 59,330.90, down 874.16 points, or 1.45%, from the previous close, after briefly slipping below 59,000 during Friday trade. The Nifty fell 287.60 points, or 1.61%, to end at 17,604.35. Both indices posted their biggest single-day fall in four months to retreat to levels last seen at the end of October 2022.

Not only automobile makers, the equipment makers too, saw robust growth in the third quarter. Sona BLW reported a strong 39% YoY growth in revenue to Rs 685 crore, with battery electric vehicles accounting for 26% of the revenue.

Economists and analysts in a Reuters survey forecast U.S. crude would average $84.84 per barrel in 2023, compared to an average price of $94.33 last year, citing expectations of global economic weakness. U.S. crude prices recently stood at around $80 per barrel.

Fourth-quarter earnings season has hit full stride, with more than one fourth of the companies in the S&P 500 having reported. Of those, 69% have beaten consensus estimates, up from 67% on Wednesday, according to Refinitiv.

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Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC on Friday reported an 11 per cent decline in profit after tax (PAT) to Rs 166.3 crore for three months ended December 2022. In comparison, the company had posted a PAT of Rs 186.2 crore in the same quarter of the preceding fiscal, the asset management firm said in a regulatory filing.