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The Sensex sunk by over 300 points in early trade on Friday (August 16) tracking losses in auto, IT, metal and banking stocks. NIFTY too fell 67.45 points or 0.61% to 10,961.95 in morning trade
 

Traders said that easing inflation numbers, released after market hours on Tuesday, too helped the recovery in the domestic market sentiment as the broader NIFTY also gained 35.30 points and the BSE Sensex rebounded by near 300 points in early trade on Wednesday.

While the BSE Sensex domestic equity benchmark dropped over 200 points in early trade on Tuesday, Reliance Industries (RIL) capped the losses on the index by rallying over 8%

With Prime Minister Narendra Modi's declaration on Tuesday that GST for most goods will be brought in the sub-18% slab, good news keeps pouring in, as RBI governor Shatikanta Das is now working on enhancing liquidity even as the rupee climbed an impressive 110 p against the US dollar on December 18

Japan's Nikkei, Hong Kong's Hang Seng, Shanghai Composite Index, Korea's KOSPI, Paris CSCV 40, Frankfurt's DAX, London's FTSE, US Dow Jones Industrial Average — are all down, but the India's Sensex, Nifty etc are constantly rallying

Here's why the market is happy about the appointment as RBI governor of Shaktikanta Das, who has had a record of pushing government interest in the parleys with the central bank

At 10.15 AM the 30-share BSE Sensex traded 189.74 points or 0.56% lower at 33,500.35, and while the wider NSE Nifty was down 69.85 points or 0.69% at 10,055.05

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 831 points, its worst loss in eight months, which triggered the morning crash in BSE