Stock market update: Nifty Bank index falls 0.54% in a weak market
NEW DELHI: The Nifty Bank index traded negative around 10:58AM(IST)on Monday in a weak market.
ADVERTISEMENT IDFC First Bank Ltd.(up 0.93 per cent), Au Small Finance Bank Ltd.(up 0.71 per cent) and Punjab National Bank(up 0.17 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Axis Bank Ltd.(down 0.85 per cent), ICICI Bank Ltd.(down 0.76 per cent), HDFC Bank Ltd.(down 0.73 per cent), IndusInd Bank Ltd.(down 0.7 per cent) and State Bank of India(down 0.7 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Bank index was down 0.54 per cent at 55949.05 at the time of writing this report. Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 196.81 points at 24915.6, while the BSE Sensex was down 668.33 points at 81739.84. Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 9 were trading in the green, while 41 were in the red.
ADVERTISEMENT Shares of Vodafone Idea, Ola Electric Mobilit, RattanIndia Power, Zee Ent. and YES Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Madhya Bharat Agro, SRM Contractors, Apollo Micro Systems, Quality Power Electr and Reliance Naval & Engg hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Osia Hyper Retail, Omkar Speciality, Lasa Supergenerics, Navkar Builders and Sadhana Nitro hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.
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