Stock market update: Nifty Bank index advances 0.23%
NEW DELHI: The Nifty Bank index closed on a positive note on Thursday.
ADVERTISEMENT Shares of IndusInd Bank Ltd.(up 2.36 per cent), Axis Bank Ltd.(up 0.59 per cent), Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.(up 0.36 per cent), HDFC Bank Ltd.(up 0.21 per cent) and ICICI Bank Ltd.(up 0.19 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, Au Small Finance Bank Ltd.(down 1.17 per cent), Federal Bank Ltd.(down 0.27 per cent), Canara Bank(down 0.19 per cent) and IDFC First Bank Ltd.(down 0.14 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty Bank index closed 0.23 per cent up at 55546.05. Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 81.15 points at 24833.6, while the BSE Sensex stood up 320.7 points at 81633.02. Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 37 ended in the green, while 13 closed in the red.
ADVERTISEMENT Shares of Vodafone Idea, MMTC, IFCI, Reliance Power and Suzlon Energy were among the most traded shares on the NSE. Shares of IFB Agro, Quality Power Electr, Pil Italica Lifestyle, Shree Global and Welspun Corp hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Lasa Supergenerics, Bharat Rasayan, Navkar Builders, California Soft(PP)and Borana Weaves hit their fresh 52-week lows.
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