How has the Sensex performed after terror attacks

Moneycontrol Bureau

Terror struck Mumbai once again on Wednesday, hours after stock exchanges had closed shop for the day. Analysing the attack vis-a-vis market mood on the next trading day, Moneycontrol.com discoverd a mixed pattern. Of the nine incidents since July 11, 2006 (when serial blasts occured on Mumbai trains that killed 200 and injured 700), the markets closed in green on four occasions and in the red on five occasions. Both, Mutual Funds (MFs) and Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) have been net buyers on six out of these nine days.

Also read Chronology of major blasts in the country

Incident	Open	Close	Prev Close	Chg (%)	MFs*	FIIs*
Mumbai blast (13/07/11)	18,564 (14/07/11)	18,618 (14/07/11)	18,596	0.12	N.A	N.A
Varanasi blasts (7/12/10)	19874.3 (08/12/10)	19696.48 (08/12/10)	19934.6	-1.2	-33.6	-1298
German bakery blast (13/02/10)	16186.9 (15/02/10)	16227.04 (15/01/10)	16152.6	-0.71	-300	217.5
Mumbai/ Taj attacks (26/11/08)	8889.18 (28/11/08)	9092.72 (28/11/08)	9026.72	0.73	606	419.4
Assam blasts (30/10/08)	9361.66 (31/10/08)	9788.06 (31/10/08)	9044.51	8.22	-42.9	1183
Malegaon blast (29/09/08)	12178.18 (30/09/08)	12860.43 (30/09/08)	12595.8	-3.87	402	84.5
Delhi blasts (13/09/08)	13666.28 (15/09/08)	13531.27 (15/09/08)	14000.8	-3.35	131	-629
A'mdabad blasts (26/07/-8)	14267.03 (28/07/08)	14349.11 (28/07/08)	14274.9	-3.4	204	-609
Jaipur bombings (13/05/08)	16691.3 (14/05/08)	16978.35 (14/05/08)	16752.9	1.35	133	729.9
Mumbai trains blasts (11/07/06)	10604.64 (12/06/06)	10930.09 (12/07/06)	10704.8	2.98	132	375.3

*Sensex open and close numbers and MFs, FIIs figures in crore are of the first trading session after the blast.