{"id":430485,"date":"2021-08-13T08:40:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T03:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=430485"},"modified":"2021-08-13T09:09:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T03:39:49","slug":"indian-shares-rise-on-energy-gains-investors-focus-on-inflation-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indian-shares-rise-on-energy-gains-investors-focus-on-inflation-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian shares rise on energy gains; investors focus on inflation data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU (Reuters) &#8211; Indian shares opened slightly higher on Thursday, driven by energy shares, with investors eyeing domestic retail inflation data for July due later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>By 0356 GMT, the blue-chip NSE Nifty 50 index was up 0.1% at 16,299 and the benchmark S&amp;P BSE Sensex rose 0.21% to 54,641.22 <\/p>\n<p>The Nifty energy index gained 0.6%, with Power Grid Corp and Tata Power Ltd adding 2.8% and 1.3%, respectively. <\/p>\n<p>Nifty 50 components Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd, Hero MotoCorp Ltd, Tata Steel Ltd and Eicher Motors Ltd will report results later in the day. <\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s consumer price inflation data for July, due at 1200 GMT on Thursday, likely slowed to a three-month low on falling food prices and an easing of supply chain disruptions, a Reuters poll found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU (Reuters) &#8211; Indian shares opened slightly higher on Thursday, driven by energy shares, with investors eyeing domestic retail inflation data for July due later in the day. By 0356 GMT, the blue-chip NSE Nifty 50 index was up 0.1% at 16,299 and the benchmark S&amp;P BSE Sensex rose 0.21% to 54,641.22 The Nifty energy index gained 0.6%, with Power Grid Corp and Tata Power Ltd adding 2.8% and 1.3%, respectively. Nifty 50 components Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd, Hero MotoCorp Ltd, Tata Steel Ltd and Eicher Motors Ltd will report results later in the day. India&#8217;s consumer price inflation data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}