Stock market update: Nifty Bank index advances 0.92%

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

Shares of Bank of Baroda(up 4.6 per cent), Punjab National Bank(up 4.26 per cent), IDFCBANK(up 3.21 per cent), State Bank of India(up 2.2 per cent) and Federal Bank(up 1.11 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.

On the other hand, Bandhan Bank(down 2.73 per cent), Axis Bank(down 0.54 per cent) and Kotak Mahindra Bank(down 0.14 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.


The Nifty Bank index closed 0.92 per cent up at 45158.1.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 133.5 points at 19322.55, while the BSE Sensex stood up 486.49 points at 65205.05.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 24 ended in the green, while 26 closed in the red.

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

Shares of Kore Digital, ADF Foods, Vasa Denticity, Sahana System and Starteck Finance hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Sanwaria Consumer, Gammon Infra, JBF Industries, Cell Point(India)and TECIL Chemicals hit their fresh 52-week lows.