MARKET LIVE: Sensex at day’s low, down 300 pts; Nifty gives up 18,000

Stock market LIVE updates: Benchmark indices turned sharply lower in noon deals on Thursday as sell-off in financial stocks deepened.

The S&P BSE Sensex was down over 250 points at 60,380 levels after hitting an intra-day high of 60,877. The Nifty50 index, meanwhile, was down 60 points at 17,980 level.

Bajaj Finance was the top laggard on the Sensex index, down over 8 per cent, after the consumer finance reported that assets under management…