Domestic benchmarks slid on Wednesday, led by losses in technology and financial stocks, while worries that the US central bank will keep raising interest rates dented investor sentiment.
The NSE Nifty 50 was down 0.47 per cent at 17,572.65, while the S&P BSE Sensex slipped 0.53 per cent to 58,881.95 in early trade.
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In Mumbai, the Nifty IT index and the Nifty Bank index fell as much as 0.9 per cent each.
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