Stock market update: Nifty Bank index advances 0.5%

NEW DELHI: The Nifty Bank index closed on a positive note on Monday.

Shares of Bandhan Bank(up 4.27 per cent), Punjab National Bank(up 1.61 per cent), IndusInd Bank(up 1.01 per cent), IDFCBANK(up 0.91 per cent) and ICICI Bank(up 0.75 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.

On the other hand, AU Small Finance Bank(down 2.83 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.


The Nifty Bank index closed 0.5 per cent up at 40813.05.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 38.3 points at 17398.05, while the BSE Sensex stood up 114.92 points at 59106.44.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 0 ended in the green, while 0 closed in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Rail Vikas Nigam, Suzlon Energy and GMR Infra were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of SML Isuzu, Systango Technologie, TTK Healthcare, Technocraft Ind and Asian Hotels hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Vikas Proppant & Gr, Eastern Silk, Nirman Agri Genetics, ART Nirman and Seya Industries hit their fresh 52-week lows.