{"id":70164,"date":"2026-02-20T10:25:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/02\/20\/indian-shares-bounce-back-after-thursdays-selloff\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:25:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:25:31","slug":"indian-shares-bounce-back-after-thursdays-selloff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/02\/20\/indian-shares-bounce-back-after-thursdays-selloff\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Shares Bounce Back After Thursday&#8217;s Selloff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares bounced back on Friday after falling sharply in the previous session on rising geopolitical tensions and uncertainty over the Federal Reserve&#8217;s rate path.<\/p>\n<p>Unfazed by U.S.-Iran tensions and the sharp spike in Brent crude futures to $72 a barrel, the benchmark BSE Sensex jumped 316.57 points, or 0.38 percent, to 82,814.71.<\/p>\n<p>The broader NSE Nifty index surged 116.90 points, or 0.46 percent, to 25,571.25, with metal and banking stocks leading the surge. <\/p>\n<p>The BSE mid-cap index added 0.4 percent, but the small-cap index slid 0.2 percent. <br \/>The market breadth was weak on the BSE, with 2,266 shares falling while 1,916 shares rose and 167 shares closed unchanged. <\/p>\n<p>Broad-based buying was seen barring IT sector. State-owned companies like NTPC, ONGC, Coal India and Bharat Electronics rose 1-3 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Bajaj Finance, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Tata Steel, Hindustan Unilever and Larsen &amp; Toubro advanced 1-2 percent. ABB India soared 4.7 percent post its Q4 results.<\/p>\n<p>Dee Development Engineers skyrocketed 13 percent on receiving a letter of intent for the supply of heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) pipes from one of the largest international OEMs based in the United States. <\/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 Bounce Back After Thursday&#8217;s Selloff<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-02-20 10:25:31<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares bounced back on Friday after falling sharply in the previous session on rising geopolitical tensions and uncertainty over the Federal Reserve&#8217;s rate path. Unfazed by U.S.-Iran tensions and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70165,"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-70164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70164","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=70164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/70165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}