Stock market update: Nifty Bank index falls 0.98%
Shares of HDFC Bank Ltd.(up 1.42 per cent) and Bandhan Bank Ltd.(up 0.01 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, Axis Bank Ltd.(down 4.37 per cent), Punjab National Bank(down 4.14 per cent), State Bank of India(down 2.76 per cent), IDFC First Bank Ltd.(down 2.54 per cent) and Bank of Baroda(down 2.5 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty Bank index closed 0.98 per cent down at 43964.05.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended down 92.65 points at 19436.1, while the BSE Sensex stood down 286.06 points at 65226.04.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 10 ended in the green, while 39 closed in the red.
Shares of Suzlon Energy, IOB, JP Power, Vodafone Idea and YES Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of SoftTech Engineers, Apollo Micro Systems, MPS Ltd, SaskenTech and Dynamatic Tech hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Manoj Vaibhav Gems N, Nuvama Wealth Manage, Sai Silks(Kalamandi, Shree Ram Proteins and Yatra Online hit their fresh 52-week lows.
