Indian equity benchmarks are likely to make a gap-down opening on Friday, amid weakness across global markets following worse-than-expected US inflation data. At 

am, Singapore Exchange (SGX) Nifty futures -an early indicator of the Nifty index -- were down 176 points or one percent at 17,430.

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