Mumbai, Oct. 13 -- Domestic benchmark equities opened under pressure on Monday as selling returned to equities amid renewed global uncertainty following US President Donald Trump's announcement of fresh tariffs on China.

The return of tariff tensions has once again unsettled global trade sentiment, making investors cautious across markets.

At the opening bell, the Nifty 50 index declined 108.05 points or 0.43 per cent to 25,177.30, while the BSE Sensex fell 450.25 points or 0.55 per cent to open at 82,050.57.

Ajay Bagga, Banking and Market Expert, told ANI, "There is some risk coming to India via the listing of mega IPOs. The relief is that till Diwali just one IPO is planned so secondary market volumes will not suffer due to bunched-u...