Share market update: Media shares in the green; Inox Leisure climbs 3%

NEW DELHI: Media shares were trading in the green in Friday's afternoon session.

Shares of Inox Leisure (up 3.08 per cent), Navneet Education (up 2.95 per cent), Dish TV India (up 2.77 per cent) and Network 18 Media & Investments (up 2.72 per cent) were trading higher.

TV Today Network (up 1.81 per cent), Zee Entertainment Enterprises (up 0.94 per cent), TV18 Broadcast (up 0.25 per cent) and Hathway Cable & Datacom (up 0.25 per cent) too were trading with gains.


The Nifty Media index was trading 0.77 per cent up at 1859.75 around 12:11 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 128.15 points at 11,160.60 while the BSE Sensex was up 411.60 points at 37,738.96.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 39 were trading in the green, while 10 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Ashok Leyland, Tata Motors, JSPL, Dish TV India, SBI and PNB were among the most traded securities on the NSE.