{"id":1030735,"date":"2026-08-24T08:31:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T03:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030735"},"modified":"2026-08-24T09:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T03:37:10","slug":"mcap-of-four-among-most-valued-firms-erodes-rs-87960-cr-airtel-worst-hit-amid-bearish-trend-in-equities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/24\/mcap-of-four-among-most-valued-firms-erodes-rs-87960-cr-airtel-worst-hit-amid-bearish-trend-in-equities\/","title":{"rendered":"Mcap of four among most valued firms erodes Rs 87,960 cr; Airtel worst hit amid bearish trend in equities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The combined market valuation of four of the top-10 most valued firms eroded by Rs 87,960.29 crore last week, with Bharti Airtel taking the biggest hit, in-tandem with a bearish trend in equities. <\/p>\n<p>Last week, the BSE benchmark Sensex declined 468.42 points, or 0.60 per cent, and the NSE Nifty dipped 114 points, or 0.46 per cent. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Indian equity markets ended the week on a cautious note, extending their recent corrective phase as elevated crude oil prices, rising global bond yields and persistent geopolitical uncertainty weighed on investor sentiment,&#8221; Ajit Mishra a SVP, Research, Religare Broking Ltd, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The combined market valuation of four of the top-10 most valued firms eroded by Rs 87,960.29 crore last week, with Bharti Airtel taking the biggest hit, in-tandem with a bearish trend in equities. Last week, the BSE benchmark Sensex declined 468.42 points, or 0.60 per cent, and the NSE Nifty dipped 114 points, or 0.46 per cent. &#8220;Indian equity markets ended the week on a cautious note, extending their recent corrective phase as elevated crude oil prices, rising global bond yields and persistent geopolitical uncertainty weighed on investor sentiment,&#8221; Ajit Mishra a SVP, Research, Religare Broking Ltd, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030766,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030735\/revisions\/1030766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}