{"id":11294,"date":"2021-06-29T04:36:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T04:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/06\/29\/sensex-nifty-little-changed-in-lackluster-trade\/"},"modified":"2021-06-29T04:36:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T04:36:11","slug":"sensex-nifty-little-changed-in-lackluster-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/06\/29\/sensex-nifty-little-changed-in-lackluster-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex, Nifty Little Changed In Lackluster Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares struggled for direction in early trade on Tuesday as investors fretted about the spread of the more infectious delta variant of the <span class=\"landLinks\">coronavirus<\/span> and the re-imposition of restrictions in parts of Asia, Europe, South Africa and South America. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark 30-share BSE Sensex dropped 30 points to 52,706 in early trade, while the broader NSE Nifty index was down 7 points at 15,807.<\/p>\n<p>Maruti Suzuki, Hindalco, ICICI Bank, ONGC and Britannia Industries all fell about 1 percent, while Power Grid Corp soared 1.8 percent, SBI Life climbed 1.2 percent and Asian Paints added 1 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Tata Motors edged up half a percent. The company said it plans to introduce 10 electric vehicles across commercial and passenger vehicle businesses in India over the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>HDFC Life Insurance was moving lower. Standard Life, the co-promoter of the company, is selling a 3.46 percent stake in the company through block deals. <\/p>\n<p>NALCO rose over 1 percent after posting nine-fold jump in Q4 profit. <\/p>\n<p>Emami edged down slightly after it bought over 12 percent additional stake in the Helios Lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>HDFC Bank was little changed. The private sector bank and its subsidiary HDFC Securities have acquired a 7.4 percent stake in Virtuoso Infotech.<\/p>\n<p>Piramal Enterprises rose half a percent on fund raising reports. <\/p>\n<p>NLC India was declining despite reporting a nearly 52 per cent jump in Q4 consolidated profit.<\/p>\n<p>Escorts gained about 1 percent on the price hike buzz. <\/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 Little Changed In Lackluster Trade<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-06-29 04:36:11<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares struggled for direction in early trade on Tuesday as investors fretted about the spread of the more infectious delta variant of the coronavirus and the re-imposition of restrictions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11295,"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-11294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11294","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=11294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/11295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}