Q.Distinguish between the BSE Sensex and the NSE Nifty 50.

Both indices serve the same purpose — a barometer of overall market performance — but are built from a different number of companies on different exchanges. …

Both indices are constructed from a representative, carefully selected sample of large, actively traded ("blue-chip") companies, weighted so that larger companies influence the index more than smaller ones. Because the companies within each index together account for a large share of their exchange's total trading value, both are treated as reliable barometers of overall stock market — and by extension, investor sentime …

Assuming the two indices track the same set of companies just because both are described as 'benchmark indices' — the Sensex and Nifty 50 …