Share market update: PSU shares down; BPCL dips over 2%

NEW DELHI: Shares of PSU were trading lower in Tuesday's afternoon session.

Shares of Bharat Petroleum Corporation (down 2.17 per cent) , Power Finance Corporation (down 1.82 per cent) , Power Grid Corporation of India (down 1.59 per cent) and Bharat Electronics (down 1.55 per cent) were trading lower.

Steel Authority of India (SAIL) (down 1.51 per cent) , Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (down 1.29 per cent) , NMDC (down 0.77 per cent) and General Insurance Corporation of India (down 0.66 per cent) were the top losers in the index.


The Nifty PSE index was trading 0.43 per cent down at 3259.30 around 12:07 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 2.30 points at 12,076.05 , while the BSE Sensex was up 40.67 points at 40,929.90.

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

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, ZEEL, ICICI Bank, Bank of Baroda, NCC, SAIL, SBI and IDFC First Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.