Share market update: Telecom shares up; Vodafone Idea climbs 6%

NEW DELHI: Telecom shares were trading with gains in Monday's morning session.

Shares of Vodafone Idea (up 5.54 per cent) , Aksh Optifibre (up 4.08 per cent) , Bharti Infratel Ltd (up 2.57 per cent) , Sterlite Technologies (up 1.45 per cent) , Optiemus Infracom (up 1.06 per cent) , HFCL Ltd (up 0.87 per cent) and Bharti Airtel (up 0.72 per cent) were among the top gainers.

The S&P BSE Telecom index was trading 1.11 per cent up at 1172.4 around 11:09 am.


Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 54.10 points at 12298.25 , while the BSE Sensex was down 164.34 points at 41,781.03.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 16 were trading in the green, while 33 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, NHPC, YES Bank, Indian Oil Corp, BHEL, Tata Motors, L&T Fin Holding, SAIL, PowerGrid and NMDC were among the most traded shares on the NSE.