Rupee, stocks down as Microsoft outage triggers sell-off in equities in global markets

Stocks and the rupee plunged on Friday amid a global sell-off in equities triggered by an IT outage that caused devices to crash globally.

While the BSE Sensex tanked 738.81 points or 0.91 per cent to end at 80604.65, the rupee ended at record low of 83.66 to the dollar in the wake of the share crash.