{"id":9888,"date":"2021-05-19T04:18:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T04:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/05\/19\/sensex-nifty-hold-steady-in-early-trade-2\/"},"modified":"2021-05-19T04:18:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T04:18:09","slug":"sensex-nifty-hold-steady-in-early-trade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/05\/19\/sensex-nifty-hold-steady-in-early-trade-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex, Nifty Hold Steady In Early Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares were flat to slightly higher on Wednesday as investors took a note of the declining COVID-19 cases in the country. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark S&amp;P BSE Sensex inched up 73 points, or 0.2 percent, to 50,266 in early trade, while the broader NSE Nifty index was up 17 points, or 0.1 percent, at 15,125.<\/p>\n<p>Tata Motors plunged more than 5 percent after it reported a surprise consolidated net loss of Rs 7,605 crore for the March quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Canara Bank rallied 3 percent. The public sector lender returned to profit on the back of a rise in net interest income and lower provisioning for stressed assets.<\/p>\n<p>Axis Bank edged up slightly. The Specified Undertaking of the Unit Trust of India is selling a little more than half its shareholding in the private sector lender through an offer for sale. <\/p>\n<p>Aarti Industries fell nearly 3 percent after its board recommended a 1:1 bonus issue.<\/p>\n<p>Central Bank of India was down 0.6 percent after its shareholders approved allotment of preference shares to the government for a Rs. 4,800-crore capital infusion.<\/p>\n<p>IRFC and Indiabulls Housing Finance rose over 1 percent and Heritage Foods climbed 3 percent ahead of their earnings results due later in the day. <\/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 Hold Steady In Early Trade<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-05-19 04:18:09<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares were flat to slightly higher on Wednesday as investors took a note of the declining COVID-19 cases in the country. The benchmark S&amp;P BSE Sensex inched up 73&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9889,"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-9888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9888","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=9888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/9889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}