{"id":60972,"date":"2025-06-18T04:27:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T04:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/06\/18\/sensex-nifty-edge-higher-in-cautious-trade-4\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T04:27:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T04:27:26","slug":"sensex-nifty-edge-higher-in-cautious-trade-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/06\/18\/sensex-nifty-edge-higher-in-cautious-trade-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex, Nifty Edge Higher In Cautious Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares traded higher on Wednesday despite heightened Middle East tensions and tariff uncertainties. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark S&amp;P\/BSE Sensex was up 215 points, or 0.3 percent, at 81,798 in early trade while the broader NSE Nifty index edged up by 78 points, or 0.3 percent, to 24,930.<\/p>\n<p>IndusInd Bank soared 5 percent after global brokerage firm Nomura raised its price target on the stock.<\/p>\n<p>UltraTech Cement and Maruti Suzuki India were up around 1 percent each. <br \/>ONGC gained 1 percent after announcing its foray into the imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) <span class=\"landLinks\">business<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Mahindra &amp; Mahindra advanced 1.8 percent after it received regulatory approval for its proposed acquisition of a controlling stake in SML Isuzu Ltd. <\/p>\n<p>Delhivery rose over 1 percent as the Competition Commission of India approved its proposed acquisition of a controlling stake in Ecom Express.<\/p>\n<p>Zydus Wellness rallied 2.6 percent after private equity firm True North exited the company by divesting its entire 7.27 percent stake.<\/p>\n<p>Ugro Capital jumped 3.2 percent as it proposed to acquire Profectus Capital for Rs.1,400 crore in an all-cash deal.<\/p>\n<p>Railtel climbed 1.2 percent on winning a new order from Zoram Electronics Development Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>Hindustan Zinc plunged 5.6 percent as promoter Vedanta offloaded a 1.71 percent stake in the company through block deals. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/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 Edge Higher In Cautious Trade<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-06-18 04:27:26<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares traded higher on Wednesday despite heightened Middle East tensions and tariff uncertainties. The benchmark S&amp;P\/BSE Sensex was up 215 points, or 0.3 percent, at 81,798 in early trade&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60972","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=60972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/60973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}