Nifty, Sensex slide again on Trump tariff threat and foreign selling — plus 3 stock buys for Jan 8
MUMBAI, Jan 8, 2026, 12:06 IST Indian shares slipped again on Thursday, with the Nifty 50 down 0.18% at 26,093.35 and the Sensex off 0.13% at 84,847.3 by 9:55 a.m. local time, as tariff worries and foreign fund selling kept risk appetite thin. Reuters The move matters because investors are heading into a key stretch of quarterly results while the market’s biggest driver has drifted back to geopolitics. Traders are watching New Delhi’s negotiations with Washington, after U.S. President Donald Trump warned of higher tariffs on Indian goods over India’s Russian oil purchases. Foreign investors sold 15.28 billion rupees ($170.26
