{"id":13469,"date":"2021-09-01T04:19:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T04:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/09\/01\/sensex-nifty-at-fresh-highs\/"},"modified":"2021-09-01T04:19:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T04:19:11","slug":"sensex-nifty-at-fresh-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/09\/01\/sensex-nifty-at-fresh-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex, Nifty At Fresh Highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares opened on a positive note Wednesday after official data showed the Indian <span class=\"landLinks\">economy<\/span> logged a record growth in the three months to June due to a low base last year.<\/p>\n<p>GDP grew 20.1 percent year-on-year in the April to June quarter versus a 24.4 percent contraction in the same period of the fiscal year 2020-21, preliminary estimates from the statistics ministry showed. Economists had forecast 20 percent growth.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark 30-share BSE Sensex rose 173 points, or 0.3 percent, to 57,725 in early trade, while the broader NSE Nifty index was up 37 points, or 0.2 percent, at 17,169.<\/p>\n<p>Bajaj Auto, Larsen &amp; Toubro, Asian Paints, Eicher Motors and Axis Bank rallied 2-4 percent, while Tech Mahindra, Hindalco, HDFC, Maruti Suzuki India and Tata Steel lost 1-2 percent. <\/p>\n<p>BHEL jumped 2.4 percent on winning an order worth Rs 10,800 crore from NPCIL.<\/p>\n<p>Shoppers Stop soared 4.5 percent after it agreed to sell a controlling stake in its wholly-owned subsidiary Crossword Bookstores.<\/p>\n<p>Mastek climbed 4.2 percent. The company has announced a partnership with fulfillmenttools to enable D2X (Direct to Stakeholder) transformation for their joint clients.<\/p>\n<p>Maruti Suzuki India dropped 1.2 percent on news it is expecting a 60 percent cut in production in September due to shortage in supply of semiconductors.<\/p>\n<p>Wipro was marginally higher. The company has partnered with HERE Technologies to offer location-based services to customers from various sectors. <\/p>\n<p>Bank of India fell more than 1 percent after raising Rs 2,550 crore via a QIP issue. <\/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, Nifty At Fresh Highs<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-09-01 04:19:11<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares opened on a positive note Wednesday after official data showed the Indian economy logged a record growth in the three months to June due to a low base&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13470,"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-13469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13469","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=13469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/13470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}