Sensex, Nifty 50 today: Stock market opens flat with the broader market in the red

Today's Sensex and Nifty 50: On Wednesday, March 26, the trading session started with the stock market flat and the overall market down. The benchmark BSE Sensex was up 19.85 points, or 0.03 percent, at 78,037.04 at 9.15 a.m. At 23,669.85, the wider NSE Nifty opened just 1.20 points higher, or 0.01 percent, in the green.

Power Grid Corporation of India opened at ₹294.85, up 1.27 percent, the highest of the 30 Sensex equities. Next in line were IndusInd Bank, up 0.69 percent, trading at ₹641.70, and Bajaj Finserv, up 0.90 percent, trading at ₹1,963.55. Of the stocks in the Sensex, 14 were down. The Nifty Financial Services Ex-Bank Index experienced the largest increase of any Nifty sectoral index, rising 0.20 percent to 26,470.45. Nifty Financial Services, 25/50, which was up 0.14 percent to 26,828.75, and Nifty Auto, which was up 0.18 percent to 21,776.60, came next.

The Nifty IT Index experienced the worst decline of any index in the red, dropping 0.29 percent to 37,599.40. Nifty Consumer Durables and Healthcare, which fell 0.16 percent to 35,624.75 and 13,932.25 respectively, and Nifty PSU Bank, which fell 0.24 percent to 6,201.80, came next.