{"id":57557,"date":"2025-03-19T10:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T10:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/03\/19\/sensex-nifty-end-tad-higher-led-by-metal-stocks-it-stocks-decline\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T10:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T10:22:51","slug":"sensex-nifty-end-tad-higher-led-by-metal-stocks-it-stocks-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/03\/19\/sensex-nifty-end-tad-higher-led-by-metal-stocks-it-stocks-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex, Nifty End Tad Higher Led By Metal Stocks; IT Stocks Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares edged up slightly on Wednesday despite mixed cues from global <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> amid optimism surrounding a potential Russia-Ukraine truce and ahead of the Federal Reserve policy decision. <\/p>\n<p>Metal stocks surged after the government recommended a temporary tax on certain steel imports.<\/p>\n<p>However, the gains were offset by a decline in IT stocks due to valuation concerns and fears of a potential U.S. recession. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark S&amp;P\/BSE Sensex moved in a narrow range before ending the session up 147.79 points, or 0.20 percent, at 75,449.05.<\/p>\n<p>The broader NSE Nifty index edged up by 73.30 points, or 0.32 percent, to 22,907.60 while the BSE mid-cap and small-cap indexes surged over 2 percent each. <\/p>\n<p>The market breadth was positive on the BSE, with 3,012 shares rising while 1,038 shares declined and 116 shares ended unchanged. <\/p>\n<p>Tata Steel rallied 2.5 percent, SAIL jumped nearly 4 percent and JSW Steel added 1.3 percent as the government proposed a 12 percent safeguard duty on specific steel imports for 200 days. <\/p>\n<p>Among other prominent gainers, Power Grid Corp, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise, HDFC Life and Shriram Finance climbed 2-4 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Tech Mahindra led losses to close 2.3 percent lower, while Sun Pharma, Infosys, TCS and ITC all fell around 1 percent. <\/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 Tad Higher Led By Metal Stocks; IT Stocks Decline<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-03-19 10:22:51<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares edged up slightly on Wednesday despite mixed cues from global markets amid optimism surrounding a potential Russia-Ukraine truce and ahead of the Federal Reserve policy decision. Metal stocks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57558,"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-57557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57557","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=57557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/57558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}