Shares of IndusInd Bank Ltd.(up 1.96 per cent), IDFC First Bank Ltd.(up 0.3 per cent) and Federal Bank Ltd.(up 0.18 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, Punjab National Bank(down 1.51 per cent), Canara Bank(down 0.93 per cent), Axis Bank Ltd.(down 0.78 per cent), Au Small Finance Bank Ltd.(down 0.55 per cent) and HDFC Bank Ltd.(down 0.36 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty Bank index closed 0.24 per cent down at 54941.3.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended down 203.75 points at 24609.7, while the BSE Sensex stood down 644.64 points at 80951.99.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 8 ended in the green, while 42 closed in the red. Shares of Vodafone Idea, Tata Teleservices, NTPC Green Energy, YES Bank and Tata Steel were among the most traded shares on the NSE. Shares of Interarch Building, Stampede Cap(DVR), India Glycols, Solar Ind. and SecMark Consultancy hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Aditya Birla Retail, R K Swamy, California Soft(PP), Chembond Chem and Career Point hit their fresh 52-week lows.
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