Stock market update: Nifty Pharma index falls 0.3%
Shares of Pfizer Ltd.(up 1.11 per cent), Sanofi India Ltd.(up 0.98 per cent), Laurus Labs Ltd.(up 0.88 per cent), Ipca Laboratories Ltd.(up 0.59 per cent) and Zydus Lifesciences Ltd.(up 0.26 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd.(down 1.72 per cent), Granules India Ltd.(down 1.44 per cent), GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd.(down 1.3 per cent), Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd.(down 0.72 per cent) and Aurobindo Pharma Ltd.(down 0.57 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty Pharma index closed 0.3 per cent down at 15021.4.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 109.65 points at 19545.75, while the BSE Sensex stood up 405.53 points at 65631.57.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 31 ended in the green, while 18 closed in the red.
Shares of Suzlon Energy, Vodafone Idea, JP Power, Zomato and PNB were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of SoftTech Engineers, Murudeshwar Cera, Goodluck India, Utkarsh Small Financ and ENIL hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Baid Leasing, Shree Ram Proteins, Navin Fluorine, McNally Bharat and Winsome Yarns hit their fresh 52-week lows.
