Share market update: Pharma shares down; Lupin dips nearly 3%

NEW DELHI: Pharma shares were trading lower in Monday's morning session with their sectoral index trading lower.

Shares of Lupin (down 2.82 per cent), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (down 1.56 per cent), Piramal Enterprises (down 1.37 per cent), Glenmark Pharmaceuticals (down 1.19 per cent), Aurobindo Pharma (down 0.83 per cent) and Cipla (down 0.46 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

The Nifty Pharma index was trading 0.69 per cent down at 8287.5 around 10:08 am.


Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 30.45 points at 12321.9 , while the BSE Sensex was down 83.91 points at 41,861.46.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 20 were trading in the green, while 30 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, NHPC, YES Bank, Indian Oil Corp, PowerGrid, Tata Motors, NMDC, Ashok Leyland, SBI and Bharti Airtel were among the most traded shares on the NSE.