Stock market update: Nifty Bank index falls 0.14% in an upbeat market
Punjab National Bank(up 1.38 per cent), IDFC First Bank Ltd.(up 0.76 per cent), Bandhan Bank Ltd.(up 0.68 per cent), Federal Bank Ltd.(up 0.53 per cent) and Au Small Finance Bank Ltd.(up 0.43 per cent) were among the top gainers.
ICICI Bank Ltd.(down 0.56 per cent) and HDFC Bank Ltd.(down 0.47 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Bank index was down 0.14 per cent at 44345.5 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 19.45 points at 19830.95, while the BSE Sensex was up 15.84 points at 66443.93.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 36 were trading in the green, while 14 were in the red.
Shares of Suzlon Energy, IRB Infra Dev., PNB, Vodafone Idea and NBCC were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
