Stock market update: Nifty Realty index falls 0.05% in an upbeat market
ADVERTISEMENT Godrej Properties Ltd.(up 0.44 per cent), Macrotech Developers Ltd.(up 0.3 per cent), Prestige Estates Projects Ltd.(up 0.28 per cent), Oberoi Realty Ltd.(up 0.1 per cent) and DLF Ltd.(up 0.1 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Anant Raj Ltd.(down 1.47 per cent), Phoenix Mills Ltd.(down 0.54 per cent), Sobha Ltd.(down 0.38 per cent) and Brigade Enterprises Ltd.(down 0.12 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Realty index was down 0.05 per cent at 1006.5 at the time of writing this report. Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 101.61 points at 24820.2, while the BSE Sensex was up 330.89 points at 81449.49. Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 38 were trading in the green, while 12 were in the red.
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Shares of Vodafone Idea, Reliance Power, RattanIndia Power, YES Bank and Suzlon Energy were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Raj Oil Mills, Camlin Fine Sc, Belrise Industries, Prabha Energy and Niraj Ispat Ind. hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Shree Ram Proteins, Omkar Speciality, Varanium Cloud, ARSS Infra and Sadhana Nitro hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.
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