{"id":10690,"date":"2021-06-11T10:45:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T10:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/06\/11\/sensex-nifty-scale-record-highs\/"},"modified":"2021-06-11T10:45:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T10:45:28","slug":"sensex-nifty-scale-record-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/06\/11\/sensex-nifty-scale-record-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex, Nifty Scale Record Highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares hit record highs on Friday as investors took a forecast-beating U.S. inflation reading in their stride and more Indian states eased pandemic restrictions, raising hopes for resumption of <span class=\"landLinks\">business<\/span> activity. <\/p>\n<p>The daily COVID-19 count in India remained under the one-lakh mark for the fourth consecutive day with the country reporting 91,702 fresh cases.<\/p>\n<p>There was also some good news on the monsoon front after the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said monsoon rainfall this year would be normal.<\/p>\n<p>The monsoon has declared an early arrival with heavy rains, raising hopes for bumper agricultural production in the country. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark 30-share BSE Sensex hit as high as 52,641.53 before ending the session up 174.29 points, or 0.33 percent, at 52,474.76.<\/p>\n<p>The broader NSE Nifty index settled up 61.60 points, or 0.39 percent, at 15,799.35, after having hit a high of 15,835.55 earlier in the session. <\/p>\n<p>A rise in metals prices boosted commodity-related stocks, with Hindalco, Coal India, JSW Steel and Tata Steel rallying 2-4 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Dr Reddy&#8217;s Laboratories climbed 3.2 percent. The company on Wednesday partnered with Rockwell Industries for the latter&#8217;s covid-19 vaccine freezers to enable storage of Sputnik V vaccine across India.<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side, Bajaj FinServ, Larsen &amp; Toubro, IndusInd Bank, Divis Laboratories and Axis Bank all fell around 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 Scale Record Highs<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-06-11 10:45:28<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares hit record highs on Friday as investors took a forecast-beating U.S. inflation reading in their stride and more Indian states eased pandemic restrictions, raising hopes for resumption of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10691,"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-10690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690","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=10690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/10691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}