{"id":12583,"date":"2021-08-05T11:01:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T11:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/05\/sensex-nifty-end-modestly-higher-2\/"},"modified":"2021-08-05T11:01:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T11:01:18","slug":"sensex-nifty-end-modestly-higher-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/05\/sensex-nifty-end-modestly-higher-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex, Nifty End Modestly Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares eked out modest gains on Thursday, with metals, FMCG and IT stocks pacing the gainers. Banks came under selling pressure ahead of the RBI&#8217;s policy announcement. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark 30-share BSE Sensex rose 123.07 points, or 0.23 percent, to settle at 54,492.84 while the broader NSE Nifty index ended the session up 35.80 points, or 0.22 percent, at 16,294.60. <\/p>\n<p>Both the indexes closed at record highs for the third straight session amid earnings optimism and expectations of dovish policy from the Reserve Bank of India.<\/p>\n<p>Bharti Airtel rose as much as 3.9 percent in the Nifty pack, while Tata Steel, Tech Mahindra, ITC and Eicher Motors climbed 2-3 percent. <\/p>\n<p>SBI led the declines to end 3.3 percent lower, while Bajaj FinServ, Bajaj Finance, ICICI Bank and IndusInd Bank dropped 1-2 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Other Asian <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> ended mixed as the latest private payrolls data from the U.S. disappointed and China&#8217;s state media once again took aim at the video game sector, calling for higher taxes on the gaming industry.<\/p>\n<p>European stocks were flat to slightly higher in early trade as investors reacted to hawkish remarks from a top Fed official and awaited a key monetary policy update from the Bank of England for direction. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/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<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-08-05 11:01:18<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares eked out modest gains on Thursday, with metals, FMCG and IT stocks pacing the gainers. Banks came under selling pressure ahead of the RBI&#8217;s policy announcement. The benchmark&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12584,"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-12583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12583","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=12583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/12584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}