Stock market update: Nifty Bank index falls 0.3%

NEW DELHI: The Nifty Bank index closed on a negative note on Thursday. Shares of IndusInd Bank Ltd.(up 3.

22 per cent), Au Small Finance Bank Ltd.(up 2.35 per cent), Federal Bank Ltd.



(up 1.07 per cent), Bank of Baroda(up 0.22 per cent) and Axis Bank Ltd.

(up 0.02 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack. On the other hand, ICICI Bank Ltd.

(down 1.53 per cent), IDFC First Bank Ltd.(down 1.

17 per cent), HDFC Bank Ltd.(down 0.37 per cent), Punjab National Bank(down 0.

31 per cent) and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.(down 0.18 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.

The Nifty Bank index closed 0.3 per cent down at 55201.4.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended down 82.25 points at 24246.7, while the BSE Sensex stood down 315.

06 points at 79801.43. Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 20 ended in the green, while 30 closed in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, Reliance Power, Suzlon Energy, YES Bank and IDFC First Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE. Shares of Country Condos, Anzen India Energy, Bannari Amman, Synergy Green Ind and Mangalore Chem hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while GI Engineering, Gensol Engg, Revathi Equipment In, IndInfravit Trust and BDR Buildcon hit their fresh 52-week lows..