Shares of AU Small Finance Bank (up 2.74 per cent), ICICI Bank (up 1.12 per cent), Punjab National Bank (up 1.07 per cent), Federal Bank (up 0.47 per cent) and HDFC Bank (up 0.43 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, IDFCBANK (down 2.13 per cent), RBLBANK (down 0.82 per cent), IndusInd Bank (down 0.56 per cent), Axis Bank (down 0.45 per cent) and State Bank of India (down 0.21 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty Bank index closed 0.36 per cent up at 35937.05.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 82.15 points at 16364.4, while the BSE Sensex stood up 318.05 points at 54843.98.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 31 ended in the green, while 19 closed in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Zomato Ltd., SAIL and Power Grid were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of VIP Ind., Indoco Remedies, Maharashtra Scooter, Vinyl Chemicals and Gufic BioSci hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Future Market, Shubhlaxmi Jewel Art, Viceroy Hotels, Radha Madhav and YES Bank hit their fresh 52-week lows.
