Stock market update: Nifty Bank index advances 1.9%

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

Shares of Kotak Mahindra Bank(up 3.38 per cent), Bandhan Bank(up 2.39 per cent), RBLBANK(up 2.36 per cent), HDFC Bank(up 2.2 per cent) and Axis Bank(up 2.13 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.

On the other hand, AU Small Finance Bank(down 1.31 per cent) and Federal Bank(down 0.31 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.


The Nifty Bank index closed 1.9 per cent up at 36428.55.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 311.7 points at 17287.05, while the BSE Sensex stood up 1047.28 points at 57863.93.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 45 ended in the green, while 5 closed in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, NALCO, ONGC and SAIL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of Pitti Engineering, Shiv Aum Steels, Brigade Ent., Jagsonpal Pharm and Bharat Dynamics hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Future Enterprises, FutureLifestyleFash, Future Retail, Future Consumer and Future Supply Chain hit their fresh 52-week lows.