{"id":9858,"date":"2021-05-18T11:03:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T11:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/05\/18\/sensex-reclaims-50000-mark-nifty-tops-15100\/"},"modified":"2021-05-18T11:03:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T11:03:36","slug":"sensex-reclaims-50000-mark-nifty-tops-15100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/05\/18\/sensex-reclaims-50000-mark-nifty-tops-15100\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex Reclaims 50,000 Mark, Nifty Tops 15,100"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares rose sharply on Tuesday to extend gains from the previous session as the daily rise in new COVID-19 cases remained below the 3-lakh mark for a second straight day. <\/p>\n<p>The daily count rose by 2,63,533 to remain below the 3,00,000 mark first seen on May 17, while the death count rose by a record 4,329, according to the <span class=\"landLinks\">health<\/span> ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Though the virus crisis is not over yet, <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> are discounting progressive lifting of the widespread lockdowns starting in early June. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark 30-share BSE Sensex surged 612.60 points, or 1.24 percent, to settle at 50,193.33, after having climbed 1.74 percent the previous day. <\/p>\n<p>The broader NSE Nifty index rose by 184.95 points, or 1.24 percent, to 15,108.10 after a 1.67 percent gain on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Adani Ports, Bajaj Finance, Titan Company, Bajaj Auto and Mahindra &amp; Mahindra jumped 3-6 percent in the Nifty pack, while Coal India and ITC fell around 1 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Bharti Airtel shares ended 2.3 percent lower. The telecom major posted turnaround results for the March quarter but reported a decline in the ARPU figures on a sequential basis. <\/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 Reclaims 50,000 Mark, Nifty Tops 15,100<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-05-18 11:03:36<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares rose sharply on Tuesday to extend gains from the previous session as the daily rise in new COVID-19 cases remained below the 3-lakh mark for a second straight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9859,"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-9858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858","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=9858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/9859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}