The Indian stock market saw its worst single-day crash, with the Sensex plunging over 1,600 points due to fears over a slowdown in the Chinese economy. Billions of dollars of investor wealth was wiped out as foreign funds pulled money out of Indian stocks. The crash was driven by an 8% fall in the Shanghai index, and markets in Japan, Hong Kong, Europe and the US also declined sharply. Real estate and metal stocks in India were hit the hardest.