Market Now: RCom, JP Associates most traded stocks on NSE

NEW DELHI: With over 3 crore shares changing hands, Reliance Communications was leading the pack of the most traded stocks early Tuesday.

Jaiprakash Associates (number of shares traded: 2 crore) was up next.

Ashok Leyland (0.56 crore), GMR Infrastructure (0.49 crore), DLF (0.46 crore), Just Dial (0.30 crore), State Bank of India (0.27 crore), Punjab National Bank (0.26 crore), Reliance Naval and Engineering (0.21 crore) and DHFL (0.20 crore) also featured among most traded stocks on NSE.

Equity benchmarks were in the red on selling in select IT, bank, auto, FMCG and pharma counters.

Mixed Asian cues failed to give a boost to market sentiment.

The NSE Nifty index was trading 13 points down at 10,504, while the BSE Sensex was down 31 points at 34,585 around 09:40 am.

In the Nifty index, 20 stocks were in the green and 28 were in the red. Two stocks were unchanged.

Tata Motors, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Bajaj Auto, Bajaj Finance, ONGC and Eicher Motors were trading with gains in the Nifty pack of stocks.

However, UltraTech Cement, Grasim Industries, Bharti Infratel, Mahindra & Mahindra, Lupin and UPL were among top losers in the Nifty index.