Stock market update: Nifty Bank index advances 0.32%
Shares of IDFC First Bank Ltd.(up 5.4 per cent), Punjab National Bank(up 3.05 per cent), Bank of Baroda(up 2.54 per cent), State Bank of India(up 1.05 per cent) and HDFC Bank Ltd.(up 0.62 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, Au Small Finance Bank Ltd.(down 1.23 per cent), Axis Bank Ltd.(down 0.89 per cent), Federal Bank Ltd.(down 0.52 per cent), Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.(down 0.5 per cent) and ICICI Bank Ltd.(down 0.13 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty Bank index closed 0.32 per cent up at 44578.3.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 93.5 points at 19528.8, while the BSE Sensex stood up 240.98 points at 65628.14.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 31 ended in the green, while 19 closed in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, Indian Railway Fin, JP Power, Vodafone Idea and Rail Vikas Nigam were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of MMTC, Indian Railway Fin, De Neers Tools, All E Technologies and JP Associates hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while CMI Ltd, Penta Gold, Rajvir Ind, FutureLifestyleFash and Sanco Industries hit their fresh 52-week lows.
