Share market update: BSE Power index up; BHEL jumps 3%

NEW DELHI: The S&P BSE Power index was up with most of its components trading on a mixed note in Monday's afternoon session.

Shares of Bharat Heavy Electricals (up 2.97 per cent), Power Grid Corporation of India (up 1.81 per cent), NTPC (up 1.45 per cent) and Thermax (up 0.47 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.

KEC International (down 3.22 per cent), Suzlon Energy (down 3.14 per cent), Adani Transmission (down 2.30 per cent) and CESC (down 1.71 per cent) were trading with losses.


The S&P BSE Power index was trading 0.81 per cent up at 2016.88 around 12:02 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 115.45 points at 11,341.45 while the BSE Sensex was down 384.56 points at 37,780.05.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 10 were trading in the green, while 40 were in the red.

Shares of Reliance Communications, Suzlon Energy, Reliance Power, PNB, JP Associates, Oberoi Realty, Infosys, IDBI Bank, Cipla, YES Bank, REC, Jet Airways, Tata Motors, PFC and Varun Beverages were among the most traded shares on the NSE.