{"id":7512,"date":"2021-02-17T04:11:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T04:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/02\/17\/sensex-nifty-drift-lower-in-early-trade\/"},"modified":"2021-02-17T04:11:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T04:11:22","slug":"sensex-nifty-drift-lower-in-early-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/02\/17\/sensex-nifty-drift-lower-in-early-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex, Nifty Drift Lower In Early Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares opened slightly lower on Wednesday on the back of weak Asian cues as investors eyed the minutes from the Federal Reserve&#8217;s January policy meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark S&amp;P BSE Sensex dropped 320 points, or 0.6 percent, to 51,782 in early trade after ending a choppy session on a flat note the previous day. The broader NSE Nifty index was down 80 points, or half a percent, at 15,233.<\/p>\n<p>Asian Paints, Power Grid Corp, TCS and HDFC dropped 1-2 percent while HDFC Life, Bajaj Auto, GAIL and Hero MotoCorp rose 1-2 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Nestle India slumped nearly 5 percent on disappointing quarterly results.<\/p>\n<p>Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone jumped over 4 percent after it completed the acquisition of 100 percent stake of Dighi Port Limited for Rs705 crore.<\/p>\n<p>L&amp;T Finance Holdings edged up slightly after raising Rs 2,999 crore through a rights issue.<\/p>\n<p>Bharti Airtel was marginally higher ahead of a board meet later in the day to discuss the future strategic plans and reorganization of shareholding framework of subsidiary companies. <\/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 \/>Sensex, Nifty Drift Lower In Early Trade<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-02-17 04:11:22<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares opened slightly lower on Wednesday on the back of weak Asian cues as investors eyed the minutes from the Federal Reserve&#8217;s January policy meeting. The benchmark S&amp;P BSE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512","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=7512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/7513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}