Stock market update: Nifty Bank index advances 0.6% in an upbeat market
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NEW DELHI: The Nifty Bank index traded positive around 10:19AM(IST)on Monday in an upbeat market.ICICI Bank Ltd.(up 1.15 per cent), Axis Bank Ltd.(up 0.95 per cent), Punjab National Bank(up 0.78 per cent), Au Small Finance Bank Ltd.(up 0.72 per cent) and IndusInd Bank Ltd.(up 0.58 per cent) were among the top gainers.Federal Bank Ltd.(down 0.38 per cent) and IDFC First Bank Ltd.(down 0.3 per cent) were the top losers on the index.The Nifty Bank index was up 0.6 per cent at 55729.8 at the time of writing this report.Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 176.25 points at 25029.4, while the BSE Sensex was up 612.11 points at 82333.19.Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 43 were trading in the green, while 7 were in the red.Shares of Reliance Power, Vodafone Idea, Suzlon Energy, Eternal and YES Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.Shares of Khaitan(India), Camlin Fine Sc, Stampede Cap(DVR), ITD Cementation and JK Cement hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Gangotri Text, JP Associates, SKIL Infrastructure, Techindia Nirman and Varanium Cloud hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.
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