Share market update: Nifty Financial Services index rises; Indiabulls Ventures climbs 3%

NEW DELHI: The Nifty Financial Services index was up with its components trading higher in Thursday's afternoon session.

Shares of Indiabulls Ventures (up 3.01 per cent), Indiabulls Housing Finance (up 2.76 per cent), Bajaj Finance (up 2.56 per cent) and ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company (up 2.28 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.

Shriram Transport Finance Company (up 1.76 per cent), Sundaram Finance (up 1.75 per cent), Edelweiss Financial Services (up 1.74 per cent) and Bajaj Finserv (up 1.68 per cent) too were trading with gains.


The Nifty Financial Services index was trading 0.80 per cent up at 13,421 around 12:37 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 73.25 points at 11,572.15 while the BSE Sensex was up 226.30 points at 38,783.34.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 37 were trading in the green, while 12 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, REC, Dish TV India, SAIL, Vodafone Idea, Adani Power, Ashok Leyland, JSPL, PNB and SBI were among the most traded shares on the NSE.