Stock market update: Nifty Bank index advances 0.69% in an upbeat market

NEW DELHI: The Nifty Bank index traded positive around 10:35AM (IST) on Thursday in an upbeat market.

IndusInd Bank (up 8.06 per cent), Punjab National Bank (up 3.48 per cent), IDFCBANK (up 2.36 per cent), AU Small Finance Bank (up 1.0 per cent) and RBLBANK (up 1.0 per cent) were among the top gainers.

HDFC Bank (down 0.12 per cent) and ICICI Bank (down 0.1 per cent) were the top losers on the index.

The Nifty Bank index was up 0.69 per cent at 37108.3 at the time of writing this report.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 32.5 points at 17551.95, while the BSE Sensex was up 150.5 points at 58873.7.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 24 were trading in the green, while 26 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, ITC, PNB and IDFC First Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of Ganesh Benzo, BEW Engineering Ltd., TPL Plastech, Ami Organics Ltd. and Fineotex Chem hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Inventure Grwth hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.

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