{"id":13340,"date":"2021-08-27T10:52:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T10:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/27\/sensex-nifty-reach-record-highs\/"},"modified":"2021-08-27T10:52:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T10:52:50","slug":"sensex-nifty-reach-record-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/27\/sensex-nifty-reach-record-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex, Nifty Reach Record Highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares hit record highs on Friday and the rupee reached a two-month high against the greenback despite geopolitical tensions and uncertainty over U.S. monetary policy.<\/p>\n<p>Global cues were mixed as investors awaited Fed Chairman Jerome Powell&#8217;s speech at the Jackson Hole symposium for clues about the timeline for tapering stimulus.<\/p>\n<p>Powell is due to speak at this year&#8217;s virtual Jackson Hole summit at 10 a.m. ET after several Fed officials suggested that the easing will take place sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark 30-share BSE Sensex ended the session up 175.62 points, or 0.31 percent, at 56,124.72, after having reached a high of 56,188.23 and low of 55,675.87 earlier in the day. <\/p>\n<p>The broader NSE Nifty index rose 68.30 points, or 0.41 percent, to settle at 16,705.20.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Reddy&#8217;s Laboratories, Larsen &amp; Toubro, SBI Life, Hindalco and UltraTech Cement climbed 2-3 percent while Tata Consumer Products, IndusInd Bank and Infosys all fell around 1 percent. <\/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, Nifty Reach Record Highs<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-08-27 10:52:50<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares hit record highs on Friday and the rupee reached a two-month high against the greenback despite geopolitical tensions and uncertainty over U.S. monetary policy. Global cues were mixed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13340","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=13340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/13341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}