Share market update: Nifty Financial Services index up; Indiabulls Housing rises 4%

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

Shares of Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (up 3.66 per cent) , Axis Bank (up 3.05 per cent) , State Bank of India (up 1.88 per cent) , HDFC (up 1.78 per cent) , SBI Life (up 1.73 per cent) , Cholamandalam Investment & Finance (up 1.26 per cent) , ICICIGI (up 1.23 per cent) , Bajaj Finserv (up 0.99 per cent) , HDFC LIFE INSURANCE (up 0.83 per cent) , ICICIPRULI (up 0.75 per cent) , Mahindra & Mahindra Financial (up 0.74 per cent) , Shriram Transport Finance (up 0.62 per cent) , ICICI Bank (up 0.55 per cent) , REC (up 0.33 per cent) , Bajaj Finance (up 0.32 per cent) , Edelweiss Financial Services (up 0.31 per cent) and HDFC Bank (up 0.1 per cent) were among the top gainers.

The Nifty Financial Services index was trading 0.79 per cent up at 14406.15 around 11:56 am.


Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 76.95 points at 12048.75 , while the BSE Sensex was up 311.02 points at 40892.73 .

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 34 were trading in the green, while 16 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Tata Motors, SAIL, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Ltd., JSPL, SBI, Motherson Sumi and Bank of Baroda were among the most traded shares on the NSE.