{"id":9210,"date":"2021-04-27T10:52:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T10:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/04\/27\/sensex-soars-557-points-nifty-tops-14650\/"},"modified":"2021-04-27T10:52:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T10:52:52","slug":"sensex-soars-557-points-nifty-tops-14650","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/04\/27\/sensex-soars-557-points-nifty-tops-14650\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex Soars 557 Points; Nifty Tops 14,650"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares posted strong gains on Tuesday, with heavyweight metal companies, financials and automakers leading the surge amid expectations the ongoing deadly surge in the Covid-19 cases will likely peak in mid-May.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 24 hours, India recorded 323,144 new <span class=\"landLinks\">coronavirus<\/span> cases, slightly below a worldwide peak of 352,991 reached on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark 30-share BSE Sensex ended up 557.63 points, or 1.15 percent, at 48,944.14, extending gains for the second day running. <\/p>\n<p>The broader NSE Nifty index climbed 168.05 points, or 1.16 percent, to 14,653.05.<\/p>\n<p>Bajaj Finance, Divis Laboratories, Larsen &amp; Toubro, Tata Steel and Hindalco jumped 3-5 percent in the Nifty pack, while HDFC Life tumbled as much as 3.6 percent on muted Q4 earnings. <\/p>\n<p>Maruti Suzuki India and SBI Life fell 1.3 percent and 1.6 percent, respectively. <\/p>\n<p>Castrol India advanced 1.8 percent after its quarterly profit nearly doubled on higher sales.<\/p>\n<p>SBI Cards jumped 3.6 percent after its March quarter profit jumped to Rs 175 crore from Rs 84 crore in the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Mphasis lost about 1 percent after Blackstone Group Inc. offered to take a controlling stake in the company. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/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 Soars 557 Points; Nifty Tops 14,650<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-04-27 10:52:52<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares posted strong gains on Tuesday, with heavyweight metal companies, financials and automakers leading the surge amid expectations the ongoing deadly surge in the Covid-19 cases will likely peak&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9210","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\/9210","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=9210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/9211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}