NSE’s pain is BSE's gain: Stock surges 9%

Shares of BSE Ltd surged as much as 9 per cent on the National Stock Exchange ( NSE) when the latter resumed trading after a tech glitch halted trading on the bourse for nearly 3 hours on Monday.

However, the initial gains got wiped out and the stock was trading just 1.88 per cent higher at Rs 1,087 around 12.50 pm (IST). Shares of the exchange opened at Rs 1,161 and touched a high and low of Rs 1,161 and Rs 1,063, respectively, in the first 15 minutes of trading.

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Trading resumed on NSE at 12.30 pm. The bourse on Monday a technical glitch impacted trading in both cash and futures and options (F&O) segments earlier in the day.

On NSE, over 23,000 shares of BSE got traded on the counter within half an hour.

The stock had hit a 52-week high of Rs 1,200 on February 3, 2017 and a 52-week low of Rs 886.50 on March 3, 2017.

For the quarter ended March 31, 2017, BSE reported net profit of Rs 72.66 crore, up 259 per cent, against Rs 20.24 crore in the corresponding quarter last year.