Stock market update: Nifty Bank index falls 0.32%
Shares of IDFC First Bank Ltd.(up 1.32 per cent), Au Small Finance Bank Ltd.(up 1.04 per cent), Federal Bank Ltd.(up 0.5 per cent), HDFC Bank Ltd.(up 0.43 per cent) and State Bank of India(up 0.05 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, Bank of Baroda(down 1.72 per cent), IndusInd Bank Ltd.(down 1.36 per cent), Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.(down 1.13 per cent), Punjab National Bank(down 1.05 per cent) and ICICI Bank Ltd.(down 0.79 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty Bank index closed 0.32 per cent down at 44624.2.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended down 9.85 points at 19664.7, while the BSE Sensex stood down 78.22 points at 65945.47.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 26 ended in the green, while 24 closed in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, JP Power, IFCI, IOB and Suzlon Energy were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Winsome Yarns, Shreyas Ship, Airan Ltd., IFCI and Divgi Torqtransfer hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Rite Zone Chemcon In, Chavda Infra, Jiwanram Sheoduttrai, Jalan Transolutions and Essen Speciality Fil hit their fresh 52-week lows.
