{"id":11994,"date":"2021-07-20T04:32:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T04:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/07\/20\/sensex-drops-320-points-nifty-at-15650\/"},"modified":"2021-07-20T04:32:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T04:32:55","slug":"sensex-drops-320-points-nifty-at-15650","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/07\/20\/sensex-drops-320-points-nifty-at-15650\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex Drops 320 Points, Nifty At 15,650"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares opened lower on Tuesday as concerns over the resurgence of <span class=\"landLinks\">coronavirus<\/span> cases in many countries and geopolitical worries sapped investors&#8217; appetite for riskier assets. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark 30-share BSE Sensex fell 320 points, or 0.6 percent, to 52,235 in early trade, while the broader NSE Nifty index was down 103 points, or 0.7 percent, at 15,650.<\/p>\n<p>BPCL was little changed on reports the government&#8217;s plan to sell a majority stake in the state refiner has slowed down.<\/p>\n<p>Alok Industries slumped 7 percent after it reported a consolidated net loss of Rs 97.65 crore in the June 2021 quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Mahindra &amp; Mahindra declined 1.4 percent. The company has announced a recall of around 600 diesel vehicles. <\/p>\n<p>HCL Technologies gave up 2.2 percent. The company maintained FY22 constant currency revenue growth guidance of double digits and EBIT margin guidance of 19-21 percent.<\/p>\n<p>ACC soared 6 percent after reporting an over two-fold jump in quarterly consolidated net profit.<\/p>\n<p>Adani Group stocks were broadly lower after the government said market regulator SEBI and customs authorities are investigating some group companies for non-compliance of rules.<\/p>\n<p>Zen Technologies jumped 5.7 percent on winning a new export order worth Rs 120 crore.<br \/>Zuari Agro Chemicals tumbled 3.3 percent. The company has resumed production of NPK-B Plant at Goa. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/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 Drops 320 Points, Nifty At 15,650<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-07-20 04:32:55<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares opened lower on Tuesday as concerns over the resurgence of coronavirus cases in many countries and geopolitical worries sapped investors&#8217; appetite for riskier assets. The benchmark 30-share BSE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11995,"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-11994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11994","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=11994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/11995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}