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Indian shares ended marginally higher on Thursday, tracking mixed cues from global markets<\/span>. <\/p>\n India’s wholesale prices decreased for the second straight month in July and at the fastest pace in two years, provisional data from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry revealed earlier today. <\/p>\n The wholesale price index dropped 0.58 percent year-over-year in July, following a 0.13 percent fall in June. <\/p>\n Meanwhile, investors weighed what impact the U.S.-Russia summit on Ukraine on Friday might have on Russian crude flows.<\/p>\n The Trump administration has threatened that Washington could increase secondary tariffs on India if talks don’t go well in Alaska. <\/p>\n “We’ve put secondary tariffs on Indians for buying Russian oil. And I could see, if things don’t go well, then sanctions or secondary tariffs could go up,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an interview to Bloomberg TV on Wednesday.<\/p>\n The benchmark BSE Sensex moved in a tight range before ending the session up 58 points at 80,597.66.<\/p>\n The broader NSE Nifty index ended little changed with a positive bias at 24,31.30 while the BSE mid-cap and small-cap indexes fell 0.2 percent and 0.6 percent, respectively. <\/p>\n The market breadth was weak on the BSE, with 2,303 shares declining while 1,763 shares rose and 149 shares closed unchanged. <\/p>\n Asian Paints, Infosys and Eternal rose 1-2 percent while Tata Steel tumbled more than 3 percent, Tech Mahindra declined 1.5 percent, Adani Ports shed 1.3 percent and BEL ended down 1 percent. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Market Analysis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n