Stock market update: Nifty Bank index falls 0.56% in a weak market
Federal Bank Ltd.(up 2.13 per cent), Punjab National Bank(up 0.49 per cent), IndusInd Bank Ltd.(up 0.34 per cent), Axis Bank Ltd.(up 0.24 per cent) and Bank of Baroda(up 0.18 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.(down 0.99 per cent), Au Small Finance Bank Ltd.(down 0.96 per cent), HDFC Bank Ltd.(down 0.95 per cent), State Bank of India(down 0.83 per cent) and ICICI Bank Ltd.(down 0.69 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Bank index was down 0.56 per cent at 44336.05 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 111.25 points at 19527.05, while the BSE Sensex was down 335.61 points at 65492.8.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 12 were trading in the green, while 38 were in the red.
Shares of JSW Infrastructure, Suzlon Energy, Vodafone Idea, JP Power and YES Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
