{"id":7568,"date":"2021-02-19T04:14:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T04:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/02\/19\/sensex-nifty-drift-lower-in-early-trade-2\/"},"modified":"2021-02-19T04:14:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T04:14:14","slug":"sensex-nifty-drift-lower-in-early-trade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/02\/19\/sensex-nifty-drift-lower-in-early-trade-2\/","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 a tad lower on Friday, tracking weak global cues as disappointing U.S. labor market data soured the economic outlook.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark S&amp;P BSE Sensex dropped 212 points, or 0.4 percent, to 51,112 in early trade, while the broader NSE Nifty index was down 75 points, or half a percent, at 15,044.<\/p>\n<p>Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea both rose about half a percent on speculation of a tariff hike soon.<\/p>\n<p>ONGC dropped 1.7 percent as oil prices slid as much as 2 percent in Asian trade, adding to overnight declines. <\/p>\n<p>Oil India climbed 2 percent and Engineers India advanced 1.2 percent. The companies said they will jointly bid for acquiring Bharat Petroleum Corporation&#8217;s 61.65 percent stake in Numaligarh Refinery Limited.<\/p>\n<p>Ambuja Cements edged up slightly on reporting a 34 percent rise in Q4 consolidated net profit.<\/p>\n<p>Larsen &amp; Toubro gained 0.6 percent after its construction arm bagged a contract from the Nuclear Power Corporation of India.<\/p>\n<p>IDFC First Bank gained 1.1 percent after its board okayed raising up to Rs 3,000 crore through various means. <\/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 \/>2021-02-19 04:14:14<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares opened a tad lower on Friday, tracking weak global cues as disappointing U.S. labor market data soured the economic outlook. The benchmark S&amp;P BSE Sensex dropped 212 points,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-asian-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7568","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=7568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/7569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}