{"id":963727,"date":"2025-09-23T11:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T05:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963727"},"modified":"2025-09-23T13:15:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:45:02","slug":"indices-fall-as-h1-b-visa-fee-shock-hits-it-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/23\/indices-fall-as-h1-b-visa-fee-shock-hits-it-stocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Indices fall as H1-B visa fee shock hits IT stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the time, when the market was gearing up for a significant consumption boost due to the implementation of Goods and Services Tax 2.0, the 20-fold hike in the H1-B fees hike saw information technology (IT) stocks drag down the benchmark indices by around 0.5% each. <\/p>\n<p>The Nifty IT Index plunged 2.95% \u2014 its sharpest fall since April 4 \u2014 and was the top sectoral loser on the NSE. During intraday trade, the index was down nearly 4%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the time, when the market was gearing up for a significant consumption boost due to the implementation of Goods and Services Tax 2.0, the 20-fold hike in the H1-B fees hike saw information technology (IT) stocks drag down the benchmark indices by around 0.5% each. The Nifty IT Index plunged 2.95% \u2014 its sharpest fall since April 4 \u2014 and was the top sectoral loser on the NSE. During intraday trade, the index was down nearly 4%.<\/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":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963727","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=963727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}