Indian benchmarks slip at open, weighed by financials and IT
Updates with opening levels
Dec 16 (Reuters) -India's equity benchmarks opened marginally lower on Monday, weighed down by losses in heavyweight financials and information technology stocks.
The NSE Nifty 50 .NSEI was down 0.14% at 24,733.9 points as of 9:17 a.m. IST, while the BSE Sensex .BSESN shed 0.14% to 82,009.7.
Five of the 13 major sectors were trading lower.
Financials .NIFTYFIN led the losses with a 0.23% fall, dragged by a 0.5% decline in HDFC Bank HDBK.NS, while IT firms .NIFTYIT fell 0.21%.
Investors' attention will be on the U.S. Federal Reserve's monetary policy decision on Wednesday and the language on rate cuts next year.
The odds of a quarter point rate cut at its Dec. 17-18 meeting is at 97%, but bets of a January cut are at just 17%, according to the CME FedWatch tool.
Reporting by Hritam Mukherjee and Kashish Tandon in Bengaluru; Editing by Sumana Nandy and Varun H K
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