Mumbai: Tracking feeble worldwide markets, the benchmark Sensex plunged below 15,000 mark level by receding more than 180 points in early trading on the BSE.

Yesterday, the BSE-30 share Sensex missed 35.85 points. Today, it dunked 180.33 points to drop below 15,000 level to 14,829.55 points in the first five minutes of trading.

In the same way, on the wide-based National Stock Exchange (NSE), Nifty misplaced 51.05 points at 4,355.00 points.

Stock brokers said fading international markets chiefly deadened the trading persuasions.

They added that markets even ignored striking first quarter earnings by the IT bellwether.

Most of heavy-weighted stocks, led by IT sector were in the red with Infosys Technologies, TCS, Satyam Computers and Wipro witnessing selling pressure.