Share market update: BSE Power index up; RInfra climbs over 4%

NEW DELHI: The S&P BSE Power index was up with its components trading higher in Thursday's session.

Shares of Reliance Infrastructure (up 4.44 per cent), Power Grid Corporation of India (up 1.83 per cent), GMR Infrastructure (up 1.81 per cent), and JSW Energy (up 1.44 per cent) were trading with gains.

KEC International (up 1.40 per cent), Torrent Power (up 1.09 per cent), Bharat Heavy Electricals (up 0.42 per cent) and ABB India (up 0.35 per cent) too were trading higher.


The S&P BSE Power index was trading 0.38 per cent up at 1977.08 around 12:01 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 10.20 points at 11,758.35 while the BSE Sensex was up 76.11 points at 39,107.66.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 21 were trading in the green, while 29 were in the red.

Shares of Reliance Power, YES Bank, Jet Airways, Reliance Capital, Ashok Leyland, ITC, VOdafone Idea, Reliance Communications, Reliance Infra, Suzlon Energy, Adani Power, DHFL, PC Jeweller, PNB, IDFC First Bank, Tata Motors and Vakrangee were among the most traded securities on the NSE.