{"id":61266,"date":"2025-06-26T10:36:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/06\/26\/sensex-nifty-extend-gains-for-third-day-11\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T10:36:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:36:03","slug":"sensex-nifty-extend-gains-for-third-day-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/06\/26\/sensex-nifty-extend-gains-for-third-day-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex, Nifty Extend Gains For Third Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares rallied on Thursday to extend gains for a third straight session as optimism around a possible Israel-Iran ceasefire prevailed and the dollar weakened on speculation that U.S. interest-rate cuts may come sooner than expected. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. dollar index hit a three-year low, raising expectations of increased overseas inflows into Asia&#8217;s third-largest <span class=\"landLinks\">economy<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Also helping boost sentiment, oil consolidated near two-week lows after seeing a tentative rebound from the biggest two-day decline since 2022 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, investors shrugged off reports that U.S. President Donald Trump was considering replacing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as early as September or October.<\/p>\n<p>Frustrated at the slow pace of interest rate cuts, Trump is thinking of replacing Fed Chair Jerome Powell before the November elections, reports say. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark 30-share BSE Sensex surged 1,000.36 points, or 1.21 percent, to 83,755.87 while the broader NSE Nifty index closed at 25,549, up 304.25 points, or 1.21 percent, from its previous close. <\/p>\n<p>Both indices are now trading nearly 2 percent below their September peaks. The BSE mid-cap and small-cap indexes edged up by 0.6 percent and 0.1 percent, respectively &#8211; underperforming their larger peers. <\/p>\n<p>The market breadth was strong on the BSE, with 2,097 shares rising while 1,900 shares declined and 156 shares closed unchanged. <\/p>\n<p>Among the top gainers, NTPC, Bajaj FinServ, HDFC Bank, Eternal, Adani Ports, Bharti Airtel, Bajaj Finance and Tata Steel jumped 2-3 percent. Defense stocks such as Sika Interplant Systems and Data Patterns surged 3-4 percent after NATO members agreed on a higher defence spending target. <\/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 Extend Gains For Third Day<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-06-26 10:36:03<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares rallied on Thursday to extend gains for a third straight session as optimism around a possible Israel-Iran ceasefire prevailed and the dollar weakened on speculation that U.S. interest-rate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61267,"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-61266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61266","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=61266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/61267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}