{"id":65461,"date":"2025-10-17T04:33:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T04:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/10\/17\/sensex-nifty-little-changed-in-lackluster-trade-it-stocks-drag\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T04:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T04:33:17","slug":"sensex-nifty-little-changed-in-lackluster-trade-it-stocks-drag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/10\/17\/sensex-nifty-little-changed-in-lackluster-trade-it-stocks-drag\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex, Nifty Little Changed In Lackluster Trade; IT Stocks Drag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares were little changed in early trade on Friday due to escalating Sino-U.S. tensions and renewed concerns about the U.S. banking sector.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark BSE Sensex was down 7 points at 83,460 while the broader NSE Nifty index was marginally higher at 25,595.<\/p>\n<p>Infosys fell 1.6 percent on reporting a 2.2 percent quarter-on-quarter revenue increase in constant currency terms for Q2FY26.<\/p>\n<p>Wipro slumped 4.2 percent on reporting a 2.5 percent quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) decline in its quarterly consolidated net profit.<\/p>\n<p>Jio Financial Services dropped 1.2 percent on reporting flat profit for Q2FY2 year-on-year. <\/p>\n<p>Waaree Energies declined 2 percent despite reporting its best-ever quarterly performance with a significant surge in revenue and profit.<\/p>\n<p>Zee Entertainment Enterprises tumbled 2.7 percent after lowering its advertising revenue growth forecast for the current fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>Reliance Industries, Hindustan Zinc and JSW Steel were up between 0.3 percent and 0.7 percent ahead of their earnings results due today.<\/p>\n<p>BEML rose about 1 percent after it signed a pact with Kineco to jointly work on advanced composite production for the defence and aerospace industries. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/p>\n<\/div><\/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 Little Changed In Lackluster Trade; IT Stocks Drag<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-10-17 04:33:17<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares were little changed in early trade on Friday due to escalating Sino-U.S. tensions and renewed concerns about the U.S. banking sector. The benchmark BSE Sensex was down 7&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-asian-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65461","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=65461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/65462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}