{"id":13297,"date":"2021-08-26T11:04:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T11:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/26\/sensex-nifty-end-flat-amid-fo-expiry\/"},"modified":"2021-08-26T11:04:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T11:04:36","slug":"sensex-nifty-end-flat-amid-fo-expiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/26\/sensex-nifty-end-flat-amid-fo-expiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex, Nifty End Flat Amid F&#038;O Expiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares ended little changed for the second day running on Thursday, with weak cues from Asia and Europe as well as the expiry of August-series futures and options contracts weighing on sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>The mood in global <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> turned cautious as investors awaited Fed Chair Jerome Powel&#8217;s remarks at the Fed&#8217;s annual Jackson Hole gathering for clues on the timing of a tapering of monetary stimulus.<\/p>\n<p>Closer home, the second wave of COVID-19 will lead to new problem loans in the retail and SME segments, but a severe asset quality decline is unlikely, global rating agency Moody&#8217;s Investors Service said in a release. <\/p>\n<p>The improved profitability, capital and loss buffers of banks will help them absorb anticipated loan losses and maintain credit strength, Moody&#8217;s said.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark 30-share BSE Sensex ended a choppy session up 4.89 points, or 0.01 percent, at 55,949.10 while the broader NSE Nifty index edged up 2.25 points, or 0.01 percent, to 16,636.90.<\/p>\n<p>Britannia Industries jumped 2.7 percent as Jehangir Wadia withdrew from all listed businesses of the $15-billion Wadia Group.<\/p>\n<p>Reliance Industries, HDFC Life, BPCL and Tata Consumer Products rose 1-2 percent while Bharti Airtel slumped as much as 4.4 percent amid fund raising reports. <\/p>\n<p>Hindalco, SBI, Maruti Suzuki India and JSW Steel dropped 1-2 percent. <\/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 Flat Amid F&#038;O Expiry<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-08-26 11:04:36<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares ended little changed for the second day running on Thursday, with weak cues from Asia and Europe as well as the expiry of August-series futures and options contracts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13298,"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-13297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13297","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=13297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/13298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}