{"id":13105,"date":"2021-08-20T04:20:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T04:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/20\/sensex-down-190-points-nifty-dips-below-16500\/"},"modified":"2021-08-20T04:20:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T04:20:59","slug":"sensex-down-190-points-nifty-dips-below-16500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/20\/sensex-down-190-points-nifty-dips-below-16500\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex Down 190 Points; Nifty Dips Below 16,500"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares opened lower on Friday amid uncertainty over the spread of the <span class=\"landLinks\">coronavirus<\/span> and the Fed&#8217;s taper plans.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark 30-share BSE Sensex dropped 190 points, or 0.3 percent, to 55,438, while the broader NSE Nifty index was down 70 points, or 0.4 percent, at 16,498.<\/p>\n<p>Metal stocks nosedived, with JSW Steel, Tata Steel and Hindalco losing 4-5 percent on concerns over slowing global growth. <\/p>\n<p>Asian Paints, SBI Life and Bharti Airtel all rose over 1 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Vodafone Idea lost nearly 5 percent despite news that the company paid its entire license fee dues for the quarter ended June.<\/p>\n<p>HDFC Bank was down about 1 percent after raising $1 billion from a bond offering. <\/p>\n<p>Jet Airways jumped 4 percent. The airline&#8217;s employees have filed an appeal in the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal challenging the Kalrock-Jalan consortium&#8217;s offer under the resolution plan.<\/p>\n<p>Ujjivan Small Finance Bank slumped 6.4 percent after its MD and CEO Nitin Chugh resigned.<\/p>\n<p>ONGC declined 3 percent as oil headed for a substantial weekly loss on concerns about weaker fuel demand. <\/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 Down 190 Points; Nifty Dips Below 16,500<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-08-20 04:20:59<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares opened lower on Friday amid uncertainty over the spread of the coronavirus and the Fed&#8217;s taper plans. The benchmark 30-share BSE Sensex dropped 190 points, or 0.3 percent,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13106,"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-13105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13105","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=13105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/13106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}