The key domestic benchmarks may open little changed today tracking a mixed trend in Asian stocks. China’s Shanghai Composite was trading tad lower after technology and financial stocks dropped amid a surprise dip in the country’s imports last month. Hang Seng fell but Japan’s Nikkei 225 rose as a weaker yen bolstered the appeal of exporter stocks. Back home, caution may persist ahead of the Supreme Court verdict on the fate of coal blocks allocated since 1992. A mass cancellation of coal blocks may weigh heavily on Asia’s third biggest economy and hit Dalal Street. Metal and power companies will be in focus today. Further, investors are eying the consumer inflation data for the month of August and industrial output number for July which will offer further cues over the health of the Indian economy, to be released later this week.
