{"id":344955,"date":"2026-03-18T04:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/344955\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T04:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:08:11","slug":"indian-shares-open-higher-extending-recent-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/344955\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian shares open higher, extending recent gains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">March 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Indian shares opened higher on Wednesday, \u200ccontinuing a recovery after \u200clast week&#8217;s Iran war-driven slump, tracking \u200bgains across Asia and as oil prices came off slightly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The Nifty 50 was up 0.66% \u200cat 23,736.9, \u2060while the BSE Sensex gained 0.63% to 76,547, \u2060as of 9:20 a.m. IST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Fifteen of the 16 major \u200bsectors logged \u200bgains \u200bat the open. \u200cThe broader small-caps and mid-caps rose 0.5% each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The Nifty 50 and BSE Sensex have climbed about 2% so far \u200cthis week, clawing \u200bback some of \u200bthe steep \u200blosses from their \u200cworst week in years, \u200bwhen \u200bboth indexes confirmed a technical correction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Bharath Rajeswaran \u200band Vivek \u200cKumar M in Bengaluru; \u200bEditing by Sumana Nandy \u200band Mrigank Dhaniwala)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Indian shares opened higher on Wednesday, \u200ccontinuing a recovery after \u200clast week&#8217;s Iran war-driven&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,2367,6807,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-344955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-nifty-50","tag-oil-prices","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}