{"id":9945,"date":"2021-05-20T11:20:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T11:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/05\/20\/sensex-falls-338-points-nifty-nears-14900\/"},"modified":"2021-05-20T11:20:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T11:20:43","slug":"sensex-falls-338-points-nifty-nears-14900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/05\/20\/sensex-falls-338-points-nifty-nears-14900\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex Falls 338 Points; Nifty Nears 14,900"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares fell for a second straight session on Thursday, with weak global cues denting sentiment after minutes from the last U.S. Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a possible shift in policy. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark 30-share BSE Sensex dropped 337.78 points, or 0.68 percent, to 49,564.86 while the broader NSE Nifty index ended down 124.10 points, or 0.83 percent, at 14,906.65. <\/p>\n<p>Volatility was high in the last hour of trade due to the weekly expiry of index futures and option contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Metal stocks succumbed to selling pressure as China stepped up efforts to curb soaring commodity prices. Coal India, Hindalco and Tata Steel fell 3-5 percent. <\/p>\n<p>ONGC gave up 2.9 percent as oil extended declines for a third day on news that there was progress towards a deal to lift sanctions on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Tata Motors, Sun Pharma, IOC and Britannia Industries dropped 2-3 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Cipla advanced 2.4 percent after launching Covid-19 detection testing kit. <\/p>\n<p>Titan Company, IndusInd Bank, BPCL and Mahindra &amp; Mahindra rose 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 Falls 338 Points; Nifty Nears 14,900<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-05-20 11:20:43<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares fell for a second straight session on Thursday, with weak global cues denting sentiment after minutes from the last U.S. Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a possible shift&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9946,"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-9945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945","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=9945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/9946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}