{"id":10181,"date":"2021-05-27T10:45:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T10:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/05\/27\/sensex-nifty-end-modestly-higher-amid-fo-expiry\/"},"modified":"2021-05-27T10:45:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T10:45:09","slug":"sensex-nifty-end-modestly-higher-amid-fo-expiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/05\/27\/sensex-nifty-end-modestly-higher-amid-fo-expiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex, Nifty End Modestly Higher Amid F&#038;O Expiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares ended a choppy session modestly higher on Thursday as the May series derivative contracts expired.<\/p>\n<p>While mixed global cues kept the underlying mood cautious, falling COVID-19 cases and expectations that there would be more fiscal stimulus to support the <span class=\"landLinks\">economy<\/span> offered some support. <\/p>\n<p>As many as 2,11,298 people tested positive for Covid-19 across the country in the last 24 hours, the <span class=\"landLinks\">health<\/span> ministry said in a report, marking a slight uptick in the newly reported infections. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark S&amp;P BSE Sensex ended up 97.70 points, or 0.19 percent, at 51,115.22 while the broader NSE Nifty index edged up 36.40 points, or 0.24 percent, to settle at 15,337.85.<\/p>\n<p>Shree Cement led the gainers in the Nifty to rise as much as 4.1 percent while Tech Mahindra, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Bajaj Auto and SBI rallied 2-3 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Among the prominent decliners, mortgage lender HDFC lost 2.7 percent, a day after it sold 81.05 lakh shares or 3.08 percent stake of Reliance Infrastructure Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>Bharti Airtel, Bajaj Finance, IOC and ONGC all fell over 1 percent. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>Sensex, Nifty End Modestly Higher Amid F&#038;O Expiry<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-05-27 10:45:09<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares ended a choppy session modestly higher on Thursday as the May series derivative contracts expired. While mixed global cues kept the underlying mood cautious, falling COVID-19 cases and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1535139262971-c51845709a48?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw=&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=1950&q=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/10182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}