Stock market update: Nifty Bank index advances 0.36% in an upbeat market

NEW DELHI: The Nifty Bank index traded positive around 10:04AM(IST)on Wednesday in an upbeat market.

Punjab National Bank(up 1.86 per cent), Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.(up 1.07 per cent), Bank of Baroda(up 0.84 per cent), State Bank of India(up 0.79 per cent) and IDFC First Bank Ltd.(up 0.63 per cent) were among the top gainers.

Federal Bank Ltd.(down 0.17 per cent) and ICICI Bank Ltd.(down 0.1 per cent) were the top losers on the index.


The Nifty Bank index was up 0.36 per cent at 43306.8 at the time of writing this report.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 23.75 points at 19305.5, while the BSE Sensex was up 81.91 points at 64653.79.

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

Shares of Vodafone Idea, JP Power, YES Bank, Suzlon Energy and Zomato were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of Welspun Invst, Macpower CNC Machine, Peninsula Land, Sical Logistics and Zodiac Energy hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Krishana Phoschem, Updater Service, Indo Thai Sec, Winsome Yarns and Eurotex Ind hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.