Stock market update: Nifty Pharma index falls 0.37% in an upbeat market

NEW DELHI: The Nifty Pharma index traded negative around 10:30AM(IST)on Thursday in an upbeat market.

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals(up 0.82 per cent), Natco Pharma(up 0.67 per cent), Aurobindo Pharma(up 0.28 per cent), Torrent Pharmaceuticals(up 0.24 per cent) and Biocon(up 0.17 per cent) were among the top gainers.

Lupin(down 2.44 per cent), Zydus Lifesciences(down 0.95 per cent), Ipca Laboratories(down 0.71 per cent), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries(down 0.69 per cent) and Laurus(down 0.6 per cent) were the top losers on the index.


The Nifty Pharma index was down 0.37 per cent at 12411.3 at the time of writing this report.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 30.4 points at 17844.0, while the BSE Sensex was up 113.93 points at 60414.51.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 30 were trading in the green, while 20 were in the red.

Shares of Indian Railway Finance Corporation Ltd., Rail Vikas Nigam, Vodafone Idea, NHPC and City Union Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of Barak Valley, Ircon Intl., Raymond, GE T&D India and MOS Utility hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while BEML Land Assets, Brightcom Group, Optiemus Infra, Avalon Technologies and Aavas Financiers hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.