{"id":68264,"date":"2026-01-02T04:17:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/02\/indian-shares-edge-higher-in-early-trade\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T04:17:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:17:58","slug":"indian-shares-edge-higher-in-early-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/02\/indian-shares-edge-higher-in-early-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Shares Edge Higher In Early Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares opened on a firm note Friday, tracking mostly positive cues from other Asian <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark BSE Sensex was up 312 points, or 0.4 percent, at 85,501 while the broader NSE Nifty index edged up by 94 points, or 0.4 percent, to 26,240.<\/p>\n<p>Maruti Suzuki India gained 1 percent after closing the calendar year 2025 with its best-ever sales performance.<\/p>\n<p>Indian Bank rallied over 2 percent after a positive Q3 <span class=\"landLinks\">business<\/span> update.<\/p>\n<p>RailTel Corp rose about 1 percent on bagging a Rs. 567 crore contract from the Assam Health Infrastructure Development &amp; Management Society.<\/p>\n<p>Vodafone Idea surged 2.7 percent to extend recent gains after securing a 10-year extension on its Adjusted Gross Revenue payments.<\/p>\n<p>Devyani International jumped 3 percent on news of a merger with Sapphire Foods India, the operator of KFC and Pizza Hut outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Hyundai Motor India fell over 2 percent after hiking vehicle prices. <\/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 \/>Indian Shares Edge Higher In Early Trade<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-01-02 04:17:58<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares opened on a firm note Friday, tracking mostly positive cues from other Asian markets. The benchmark BSE Sensex was up 312 points, or 0.4 percent, at 85,501 while&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68265,"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-68264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68264","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=68264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/68265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}