{"id":13017,"date":"2021-08-18T04:30:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T04:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/18\/sensex-hits-56k-nifty-nears-16700\/"},"modified":"2021-08-18T04:30:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T04:30:47","slug":"sensex-hits-56k-nifty-nears-16700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/18\/sensex-hits-56k-nifty-nears-16700\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex Hits 56k; Nifty Nears 16,700"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares hit fresh record highs on Wednesday despite mixed global cues.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark 30-share BSE Sensex rose 245 points, or 0.4 percent, to 56,036 in early trade, while the broader NSE Nifty index was up 68 points, or 0.4 percent, at 16,683.<\/p>\n<p>HDFC Bank rallied 2 percent. The RBI has allowed the private sector lender to resume issuing new credit cards.<\/p>\n<p>Future Retail shares fell over 1 percent. The Delhi High Court told the Future Group to either get a stay from the Supreme Court or it will start hearing the issue of compliance with the emergency arbitrator&#8217;s order.<\/p>\n<p>Canara Bank edged down slightly after launching a QIP issue. <\/p>\n<p>SpiceJet declined 1.5 percent as it kicked off the process of hiving off its logistics <span class=\"landLinks\">business<\/span> to its subsidiary SpiceXpress.<\/p>\n<p>HCL Technologies was slightly higher after winning a five-year IT transformation deal from a German company. <\/p>\n<p>Infosys was moving lower after it agreed to invest an additional sum $0.45 million in Tidal Scale Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Bharat Dynamics gained nearly 3 percent. The company has signed a licensing agreement with MBDA to establish a facility for the final assembly, integration, and test of ASRAAM missiles in India. <\/p>\n<p>Dilip Buildcon rose about 1 percent. Dhrol Bhadra Highways, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, has received the financial closure letter from the NHAI for four laning of Dhrol-Bhadra Patiya section of NH-151A in Gujarat. <\/p>\n<p>Kaveri Seed Company jumped 5.5 percent on share buyback news. <\/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 Hits 56k; Nifty Nears 16,700<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-08-18 04:30:47<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares hit fresh record highs on Wednesday despite mixed global cues. The benchmark 30-share BSE Sensex rose 245 points, or 0.4 percent, to 56,036 in early trade, while the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13017","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=13017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/13018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}