Share market update: Power shares advance; Power Grid gains 2%

NEW DELHI: The BSE Power index was up in Friday's morning session.

Shares of Power Grid Corporation of India (up 2.11 per cent) , Bharat Heavy Electricals (up 1.65 per cent) , Torrent Power (up 1.28 per cent) , Tata Power Company (up 1.27 per cent) , Reliance Infrastructure (up 1.12 per cent) , Adani Power (up 0.67 per cent) , GMR Infrastructure (up 0.47 per cent) , JSW Energy (up 0.36 per cent) , Siemens (up 0.17 per cent) and Thermax (up 0.1 per cent) were among the top gainers.

The S&P BSE Power index was trading 0.74 per cent up at 1905.42 around 11:05 am.


Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 76.50 points at 12203.05 , while the BSE Sensex was up 258.56 points at 41422.32 .

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 40 were trading in the green, while 10 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Bank of Baroda, PNB, SBI, SAIL, JSPL, Adani Green Energy Ltd. and Spicejet were among the most traded shares on the NSE.