Stock market update: Nifty Bank index falls 0.01% in a weak market
ADVERTISEMENT Canara Bank(up 1.27 per cent), IDFC First Bank Ltd.(up 0.42 per cent), Punjab National Bank(up 0.34 per cent), Axis Bank Ltd.(up 0.22 per cent) and ICICI Bank Ltd.(up 0.21 per cent) were among the top gainers.
IndusInd Bank Ltd.(down 0.95 per cent), Federal Bank Ltd.(down 0.83 per cent), Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.(down 0.53 per cent), HDFC Bank Ltd.(down 0.23 per cent) and Au Small Finance Bank Ltd.(down 0.03 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Bank index was down 0.01 per cent at 55348.25 at the time of writing this report. Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 51.16 points at 24775.05, while the BSE Sensex was down 190.93 points at 81360.7. Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 15 were trading in the green, while 35 were in the red.
ADVERTISEMENT Shares of ITC, Vodafone Idea, Belrise Industries, Sagility India and Reliance Power were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Medplus Health Serv, Kavita Fabrics, ABB Power, Mahamaya Steel and Authum Investment hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Orchid Pharma, Supreme Infra, Tantia Const, GI Engineering and Gayatri Highways hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.
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