Stock market update: Nifty Bank index advances 0.57%
Shares of Au Small Finance Bank Ltd.(up 1.53 per cent), ICICI Bank Ltd.(up 1.16 per cent), State Bank of India(up 1.0 per cent), Axis Bank Ltd.(up 0.77 per cent) and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.(up 0.7 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, Punjab National Bank(down 3.32 per cent), Bandhan Bank Ltd.(down 1.81 per cent) and Federal Bank Ltd.(down 1.18 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty Bank index closed 0.57 per cent up at 44213.35.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 109.65 points at 19545.75, while the BSE Sensex stood up 405.53 points at 65631.57.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 31 ended in the green, while 18 closed in the red.
Shares of Suzlon Energy, Vodafone Idea, JP Power, Zomato and PNB were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of SoftTech Engineers, Murudeshwar Cera, Goodluck India, Utkarsh Small Financ and ENIL hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Baid Leasing, Shree Ram Proteins, Navin Fluorine, McNally Bharat and Winsome Yarns hit their fresh 52-week lows.
