{"id":70011,"date":"2026-02-17T10:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/02\/17\/indian-shares-end-higher-on-easing-geopolitical-tensions-it-stocks-shine\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:29:16","slug":"indian-shares-end-higher-on-easing-geopolitical-tensions-it-stocks-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/02\/17\/indian-shares-end-higher-on-easing-geopolitical-tensions-it-stocks-shine\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Shares End Higher On Easing Geopolitical Tensions, IT Stocks Shine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares eked out modest gains on Tuesday amid easing tensions surrounding Iran and Russia. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. and Iran will resume talks in Geneva today to address their nuclear dispute. Representatives of Ukraine and Russia will also meet in Geneva today and tomorrow for a fresh round of U.S.-mediated peace talks.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark BSE Sensex recovered from an early slide to end the session up 173.81 points, or 0.21 percent, at 83,450.96.<\/p>\n<p>The broader NSE Nifty index inched up by 42.65 points, or 0.17 percent, to 25,725.40 while the BSE mid-cap and small-cap indexes rose 0.3 percent and 0.9 percent, respectively. <\/p>\n<p>The market breadth was strong on the BSE, with 2,443 shares rising while 1,758 shares declined and 151 shares closed unchanged. <\/p>\n<p>ITC jumped 2.3 percent after reportedly hiking cigarette prices to counter new excise duties. <\/p>\n<p>IT stocks bounced back after recent string of losses, with Infosys climbing nearly 2 percent after saying that artificial intelligence services accounted for 5.5 percent of its revenue in the December quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Sun Pharma, HCL Technologies, Adani Ports, Titan Company, Asian Paints, Larsen &amp; Toubro, BEL and ITC gained 1-2 percent. <\/p>\n<p>On the flip side, KWIL, which made its stock market debut on February 16 following the demerger of the ice cream <span class=\"landLinks\">business<\/span> from Hindustan Unilever, plummeted 5 percent. <\/p>\n<\/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 \/>Indian Shares End Higher On Easing Geopolitical Tensions, IT Stocks Shine<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-02-17 10:29:16<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares eked out modest gains on Tuesday amid easing tensions surrounding Iran and Russia. The U.S. and Iran will resume talks in Geneva today to address their nuclear dispute&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70012,"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-70011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70011","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=70011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/70012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}