{"id":69281,"date":"2026-01-29T04:38:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/29\/indian-shares-decline-as-traders-weigh-tech-earnings\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T04:38:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:38:35","slug":"indian-shares-decline-as-traders-weigh-tech-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/29\/indian-shares-decline-as-traders-weigh-tech-earnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Shares Decline As Traders Weigh Tech Earnings"},"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 sluggish note Thursday as U.S.-Iran tension escalated, and traders mulled over the release of mixed earnings reports from major tech firms.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla earnings and sales fell less than expected in Q4. Meta earnings topped Q4 views but the company guided up on capital expenditures.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft posted slower cloud-computing growth and said spending surged to a record high in the last three months of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark BSE Sensex was down 630 points, or 0.8 percent, at 81,712 in early trade while the broader NSE Nifty index fell 157 points, or 0.6 percent, to 25,184.<\/p>\n<p>ITC and Tata Motors fell around 1 percent each ahead of their Q3 earnings results due today. <\/p>\n<p>Mahindra &amp; Mahindra Financial Services lost more than 2 percent after reporting a 10 percent fall in quarterly profit.<\/p>\n<p>NSDL tumbled 3 percent after reporting a mixed financial performance for the December quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Vedanta rallied 2.4 percent after reports that its subsidiary Cairn Oil &amp; Gas has discovered new natural gas reserves beneath the Ambe gas field in the western offshore.<\/p>\n<p>Larsen &amp; Toubro jumped 2.4 percent despite reporting a 4.3 percent year-on-year decline in consolidated net profit for the December quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Garden Reach Shipbuilders &amp; Engineers surged 3 percent after third-quarter profit jumped 74 percent from last year. <\/p>\n<\/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 Decline As Traders Weigh Tech Earnings<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-01-29 04:38:35<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares opened on a sluggish note Thursday as U.S.-Iran tension escalated, and traders mulled over the release of mixed earnings reports from major tech firms. Tesla earnings and sales&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69282,"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-69281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69281","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=69281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/69282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}