Sensex drops 300 pts, Nifty below 25,700: 3 key reasons behind market fall

• Equity benchmarks pared early gains in volatile trade on Tuesday, with Sensex slipping over 100 points from day's high and Nifty below 25,750.
• Key factors for the market pullback include FII selling, weak global cues, and Nifty weekly expiry volatility.
• Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) offloaded equities worth Rs 972.13 crore on Monday, impacting market sentiment.
• Asian markets were largely weak, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 index trading nearly 1 percent lower, and US futures also down.
• Metal stocks were under pressure, with the Nifty Metal index down around 2 percent, as copper prices plunged.