Stock market update: Nifty Bank index falls 0.28%
Shares of HDFC Bank Ltd.(up 1.3 per cent) and Au Small Finance Bank Ltd.(up 0.61 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, Punjab National Bank(down 2.44 per cent), Axis Bank Ltd.(down 1.67 per cent), IDFC First Bank Ltd.(down 1.56 per cent), ICICI Bank Ltd.(down 1.12 per cent) and IndusInd Bank Ltd.(down 1.06 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty Bank index closed 0.28 per cent down at 44409.1.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 36.15 points at 19611.05, while the BSE Sensex stood up 100.26 points at 65880.52.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 30 ended in the green, while 20 closed in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, Reliance Power, JP Power, Indian Railway Fin and YES Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Ind-Swift Labs, Fidel Softech, Udayshivakumar Infra, FACT and Orient Paper hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Bombay Metrics Suppl, SS Infrastructure, Penta Gold, Redtape L and PowerGrid Infa InvIT hit their fresh 52-week lows.
