Stock Market Crash: ₹9.5 Lakh Crore Gone in an Hour, What Triggered It
By the FinanceChecks.com Editorial Team | Published October 1, 2026 | Last reviewed October 1, 2026 | 8-minute read If you checked your portfolio around mid-morning on Thursday, October 1, and felt a small jolt of panic, you weren’t imagining…
Stock Market Crash: Sensex and Nifty Fall Sharply, Nifty Slips Below 23,000. Top Reasons Behind the Fall
Indian stock markets extended their sell-off for a second straight session this week, with the Nifty 50 trading below the 23,000 mark and touching a six-month low of around 22,569, its weakest level since April 2026. The Sensex fell over 1,000 points in…
Stocks to Watch Today: Why IRFC, Ola Electric, NCC and Tata Group Stocks Are in Focus on September 29
Indian markets opened Tuesday, September 29, 2026 on a weak note, extending the previous session’s sell-off as global cues stayed soft and crude oil remained elevated amid the ongoing Middle East conflict. Gift Nifty pointed to a lower start, down…
What Happens to Your SIP, Mutual Fund Units and Autopay Mandate If the Investor Dies, and How the Nominee Claims Them
Most people set up a SIP once and forget about it. That is exactly the point of a SIP, and it is also why families are often caught off guard when the investor passes away. Units keep sitting in a folio nobody knows about, a bank mandate keeps trying to…
What Happens to Your SIP Autopay If Your Bank Defaults, Merges or Is Restricted by RBI, and How to Manage Your Autopays
Your SIP does not actually live inside your bank. It lives with the fund house, and the only thing connecting the two is an autopay instruction that pulls money from your bank account every month. That connection is the weak link. If your bank merges…
How to Manage Your SIP and Investments During a War, Natural Calamity or Market Crash: What to Do and How to Balance Your Portfolio
Markets do not fall politely. They fall on a Monday morning, with a headline about a war, an oil shock or a disaster, and by the afternoon your portfolio app is red and every message group is arguing about whether to stop SIPs. September 28, 2026 was one…
Bonus Shares vs Stock Split: What’s the Real Difference for Investors?
Priya’s father called her, uncharacteristically pleased with himself, to share the news. “The company gave me free shares,” he said. “One extra share for every one I already had. Just like that.” Priya, who had recently gone…
What Is a Stock Split and Should You Buy Before or After One?
Rohan checked his portfolio app on a Tuesday morning and did a double take. Overnight, the number of shares he held in a mid-cap company he’d bought eighteen months ago had jumped from 40 to 200. His first reaction, before he even read the…
Market Order vs Limit Order vs Stop-Loss Order: When to Use Each
Divya had never lost sleep over a stop-loss order until the one time it mattered most. She’d bought into a small-cap stock a few months earlier, and when a sudden bout of bad news hit the sector, she watched the price crater in real time. Her…
Sensex Falls Again Amid West Asia Tensions: This Is the Third Time in Two Weeks, Here’s What’s Different Today
If today’s market fall felt familiar, that’s because it is. This is the third distinct sell off tied to West Asia tensions that Indian markets have gone through in under two weeks, following a 377 point fall on August 31 and an 809 point…