{"id":7617,"date":"2021-02-23T11:10:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T11:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/02\/23\/sensex-nifty-end-on-flat-note\/"},"modified":"2021-02-23T11:10:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T11:10:40","slug":"sensex-nifty-end-on-flat-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/02\/23\/sensex-nifty-end-on-flat-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex, Nifty End On Flat Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares ended on a flat note Tuesday as commodity-related stocks gained ground, offsetting losses in the banking and financial sectors. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark S&amp;P BSE Sensex gave up most of its early gains to end the session up 7.09 points, or 0.01 percent, at 49,751.41, snapping a five-day losing streak. <\/p>\n<p>The broader NSE Nifty index ended up 32.10 points, or 0.22 percent, to 14,707.80.<\/p>\n<p>Rising copper prices pushed metal stocks higher for the second day running, with Tata Steel surging 7.2 percent and Hindalco climbing 5.7 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Tata Motors jumped 6.6 percent as brokerages raised their target prices on the stock, citing improved profitability and positive free cash flow targets for its CV and passenger vehicle businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Oil companies surged as oil prices jumped by more than $1, underpinned by optimism over Covid-19 vaccine rollouts and lower output.<\/p>\n<p>ONGC soared 5.7 percent, BPCL rallied 3.4 percent, HPCL advanced 1.6 percent and IOC climbed 2.2 percent. <\/p>\n<p>UPL added 5 percent. The company reported a serious fire at one of its plants at Jhagadia in Gujarat but no casualties were reported. <\/p>\n<p>On the flip side, Kotak Mahindra Bank shares tumbled 3.9 percent while Divis Laboratories, Bajaj Auto, Maruti Suzuki India and Adani Ports dropped 1-2 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 \/>Sensex, Nifty End On Flat Note<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-02-23 11:10:40<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares ended on a flat note Tuesday as commodity-related stocks gained ground, offsetting losses in the banking and financial sectors. The benchmark S&amp;P BSE Sensex gave up most of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617","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=7617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/7618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}