Indian equity benchmarks are likely to make a gap-down opening on Thursday tracking weakness across global markets after minutes of the last Fed meeting signaled sooner-than-expected rate hikes. At 

am, Singapore Exchange (SGX) Nifty futures -an early indicator of the Nifty50 benchmark index -- were down 181.5 points or one percent at 17,792.

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