{"id":60193,"date":"2025-05-28T10:21:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T10:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/05\/28\/sensex-nifty-end-lower-itc-falls-over-3-after-bats-stake-sale\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T10:21:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T10:21:28","slug":"sensex-nifty-end-lower-itc-falls-over-3-after-bats-stake-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/05\/28\/sensex-nifty-end-lower-itc-falls-over-3-after-bats-stake-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex, Nifty End Lower; ITC Falls Over 3% After BAT&#8217;s Stake Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares ended modestly lower on Wednesday, extending losses for a second straight session in the wake of fund outflows due to large block deals and increased primary market activity.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark 30-share BSE Sensex dropped 239.31 points, or 0.29 percent, to 81,312.32 while the broader NSE Nifty index ended down 73.75 points, or 0.30 percent, at 24,752.45.<\/p>\n<p>The BSE mid-cap index dipped 0.2 percent while the small-cap index rose half a percent. <\/p>\n<p>The market breadth was slightly positive on the BSE, with 1,976 shares rising while 1,961 shares declined and 153 shares closed unchanged. <\/p>\n<p>ITC tumbled 3.2 percent after British American Tobacco plc sold a 2.5 percent stake in the company via block deals, ceding veto power in the cigarettes-to-soap conglomerate. The net proceeds from the sale amounted to Rs 12,900 crore.<\/p>\n<p>Among other prominent decliners, Maruti Suzuki India, Tech Mahindra, Sun Pharma, Asian Paints, Power Grid Corp, Mahindra &amp; Mahindra, UltraTech Cement, Nestle India and IndusInd Bank fell 1-2 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 Lower; ITC Falls Over 3% After BAT&#8217;s Stake Sale<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-05-28 10:21:28<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares ended modestly lower on Wednesday, extending losses for a second straight session in the wake of fund outflows due to large block deals and increased primary market activity&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60193","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=60193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/60194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}