Indian stocks plunged as much as 150 points in trade on Monday, led by losses in ITC, ICICI Bank, L& T and Tata Motors Ltd.
At 09:20 a.m., the BSE benchmark 30-share index was at 26,139. 77, down 158 points or 0.60 percent. It touched a high of 26,276. 57 and a low of 26,137.47 in early trade.
However, Infosys which was the top gainer on last Friday in the BSE Sensex index managed to keep the momentum going despite muted trend in the overall market.