INDIA STOCKS-Indian benchmarks off to a muted start after 2-day market rout

Updates for markets open

Feb 12 (Reuters) - India's benchmark indexes opened little changed on Wednesday, after a two-day rout that saw domestic stocks lose $180 billion in market value on U.S. tariff fears and earnings worries.

The Nifty 50 .NSEI was down 0.1% at 23,054.7 as of 9:18 a.m. IST, while the BSE Sensex .BSESN shed 0.16% to 76,178.04.

The broader smallcaps .NIFSMCP100 and midcaps .NIFMDCP100 shed about 0.5% each.

Investors now await India's inflation data, due after market close. Consumer inflation likely fell sharply to a five-month low of 4.6% in January on slowing food price rises, according to economists polled by Reuters.

The Nifty and Sensex lost 2% in the last two sessions after U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would slap reciprocal tariffs on several countries, a decision that could potentially hurt the world's fifth-largest economy.

Other Asian markets traded higher on the day, tracking Wall Street equities. MKTS/GLOB