Share market update: Nifty Energy Index down; ONGC falls 5%

NEW DELHI: The Nifty Energy index was trading lower in Friday's afternoon session.

Shares of Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (down 4.84 per cent) , Power Grid Corporation of India (down 4.12 per cent) , Indian Oil Corporation (down 2.9 per cent) , Tata Power Company (down 2.49 per cent) , GAIL (India) (down 2.07 per cent) , Bharat Petroleum Corporation (down 1.92 per cent) , HPCL (down 1.83 per cent) , Reliance Industries (down 1.39 per cent) and NTPC (down 0.48 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

The Nifty Energy index was trading 2.09 per cent down at 14,926.15 around 02:33 pm.


Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 0.95 points at 12,034.85, while the BSE Sensex was up 58.54 points at 40,972.36.

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

Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, SBI, Tata Motors, ONGC, NTPC, BEL, Indian Oil Corp, PowerGrid and Motherson Sumi were among the most traded shares on the NSE.