Stock market today, Feb. 27 -- The Indian stock market witnessed significant selling across segments in the morning session of trade on Friday, February 27, amid mixed global cues. The Sensex declined over 650 points, or 0.80%, to an intraday low of 81,589, while the Nifty 50 dropped more than 200 points, or 0.90%, to 25,269 in intraday trade. The mid and small-cap indices on the BSE declined by up to 1% during the session.

Investors got poorer by more than Rs.3 lakh crore as the overall market capitalisation of BSE-listed firms dropped to Rs.465 lakh crore from Rs.468.5 lakh crore in the previous session.

Let's take a look at five key factors behind the current market selloff:

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