Stock market update: Nifty Bank index falls 0.97%

NEW DELHI: The Nifty Bank index closed on a negative note on Friday. Shares of IndusInd Bank Ltd.(up 0.

32 per cent) and ICICI Bank Ltd.(up 0.15 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.



On the other hand, Axis Bank Ltd.(down 3.39 per cent), Punjab National Bank(down 3.

33 per cent), Canara Bank(down 2.88 per cent), Federal Bank Ltd.(down 2.

68 per cent) and IDFC First Bank Ltd.(down 2.33 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.

The Nifty Bank index closed 0.97 per cent down at 54664.05.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended down 207.36 points at 24039.35, while the BSE Sensex stood down 588.

9 points at 79212.53. Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 9 ended in the green, while 41 closed in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Suzlon Energy, Reliance Power and Indian Energy Exchg were among the most traded shares on the NSE. Shares of Country Condos, Navin Fluorine, Cura Tech, Anupam Rasayan India and UltraTech Cem. hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Bhandari Hosiery, Hilton Metal, Jai Balaji Inds, Ind-Swift Labs and GI Engineering hit their fresh 52-week lows.

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