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On Thursday, the Sensex dropped 147.47 points to close at 59,958.03, while the Nifty 50 slipped by 37.50 points to close at 17,858.20. Among the Nifty gainers were SBI Life Insurance, Ultra Tech Cement, Larsen & Toubro, HCL Technologies and Cipla while Divis Labs, Reliance, BPCL, Axis Bank and Tata Motors were among the top losers

On Wednesday, striking out the early gains, the domestic benchmark indices ended lower with Sensex slipping around 372 points and Nifty closing below the 16,000 level.  

At 12.30 pm on Wednesday, the headline equity indices, i.e. Sensex and Nifty 50 were trading marginally higher as shares in the Asia Pacific markets were slightly up. This took place on the back of China releasing its trade data and Bank of Korea as well as Reserve Bank of New Zealand hiking their interest rates by 50 basis points each. 

At noon on Thursday, the core equity indices i.e., Sensex and Nifty 50 fell sharply as the global markets took a deep plunge after the earnings results of corporates like Target and Walmart failed to meet expectations by a large margin