Stock market update: Nifty Bank index advances 0.45%

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

Shares of RBLBANK(up 1.88 per cent), Kotak Mahindra Bank(up 1.44 per cent), ICICI Bank(up 1.11 per cent), Bandhan Bank(up 0.85 per cent) and AU Small Finance Bank(up 0.37 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.

On the other hand, IndusInd Bank(down 1.12 per cent), Punjab National Bank(down 0.49 per cent) and Axis Bank(down 0.07 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.

The Nifty Bank index closed 0.45 per cent up at 37441.95.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended down 88.3 points at 17415.05, while the BSE Sensex stood down 323.34 points at 58340.99.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 17 ended in the green, while 32 closed in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, Tata Power, YES Bank, Zomato Ltd. and IOB were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of Marshall Machines, Latent View Analytics Ltd., Kabra Extrusion, Elgi Equipments and MTAR Technologies Ltd. hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Vikas Proppant & Gr, Spandana Sphoorty, Nidan Laboratories And Healthcare Ltd., Destiny Logistics & Infra Ltd. and Supreme Infra hit their fresh 52-week lows.

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