Axis Bank Ltd.(up 0.82 per cent), Punjab National Bank(up 0.76 per cent), State Bank of India(up 0.46 per cent), IDFC First Bank Ltd.(up 0.43 per cent) and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.(up 0.27 per cent) were among the top gainers.
IndusInd Bank Ltd.(down 1.09 per cent), HDFC Bank Ltd.(down 0.61 per cent), Au Small Finance Bank Ltd.(down 0.56 per cent), Canara Bank(down 0.09 per cent) and ICICI Bank Ltd.(down 0.01 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Bank index was down 0.06 per cent at 55912.15 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 67.46 points at 24879.05, while the BSE Sensex was down 224.71 points at 81571.44.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 17 were trading in the green, while 33 were in the red. Shares of Vishal Mega Mart, Vodafone Idea, RattanIndia Power, JP Power and YES Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Federal Mogul, Subros, Lumax Auto Tech, Niraj Ispat Ind. and AXISCADES Engg Tech hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Navkar Builders, Sadhana Nitro, Bluspring Enterprises Ltd., Shyam Century Ferrous and Kesoram Inds. hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.
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