{"id":51843,"date":"2024-10-21T10:29:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T10:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2024\/10\/21\/sensex-nifty-end-slightly-lower-in-volatile-trade\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T10:29:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T10:29:19","slug":"sensex-nifty-end-slightly-lower-in-volatile-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2024\/10\/21\/sensex-nifty-end-slightly-lower-in-volatile-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex, Nifty End Slightly Lower In Volatile Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares ended slightly lower on Monday as investors reacted to mixed earnings results and weighed the possible impact of the U.S. presidential elections on the Indian stock market. <\/p>\n<p>Former President Trump on Sunday overtook Vice President Harris for the first time in the Decision Desk HQ\/The Hill election forecast this cycle.<\/p>\n<p>The model predicts Trump has a 52 percent chance of winning the presidency while Harris has a 42 percent chance, as of Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Geopolitical tensions also remained in focus after Israel carried out more air strikes in Beirut and southern Lebanon, including on branches of a bank linked to Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Hezbollah said it had fired more rockets into Israel on Sunday, targeting military bases.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark S&amp;P\/BSE Sensex finished down 73.48 points at 81,151.27 after a choppy session. <\/p>\n<p>The broader NSE Nifty index closed at 24,781.10, down 73 points, or 0.3 percent, from its previous close. <\/p>\n<p>Tata Consumer Products slumped 7.1 percent and Kotak Mahindra Bank lost 4.7 percent after reporting weaker-than-expected quarterly earnings.<\/p>\n<p>UltraTech Cement dropped 2.1 percent after Q2 profit declined 36 percent year-on-year, missing Street estimates. <\/p>\n<p>IT stocks such as HCL Technologies, TCS and Infosys fell 1-2 percent. <\/p>\n<p>On the positive side, two-wheeler manufacturer Bajaj Auto jumped 4.3 percent on bargain hunting following last week&#8217;s selloff. <\/p>\n<p>Private sector lender HDFC Bank rallied 2.6 percent after posting impressive quarterly results. <\/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 End Slightly Lower In Volatile Trade<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2024-10-21 10:29:19<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares ended slightly lower on Monday as investors reacted to mixed earnings results and weighed the possible impact of the U.S. presidential elections on the Indian stock market. Former&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51844,"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-51843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51843","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=51843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/51844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}