Stock market update: Nifty Pharma index falls 0.17% in an upbeat market

NEW DELHI: The Nifty Pharma index traded negative around 10:34AM(IST)on Wednesday in an upbeat market.

Torrent Pharmaceuticals(up 1.16 per cent), Biocon(up 0.71 per cent), Cipla(up 0.5 per cent), Abbott India(up 0.22 per cent) and Aurobindo Pharma(up 0.17 per cent) were among the top gainers.

Natco Pharma(down 0.84 per cent), Sanofi India(down 0.71 per cent), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries(down 0.65 per cent), Gland Pharma(down 0.51 per cent) and Alkem Laboratories(down 0.5 per cent) were the top losers on the index.

The Nifty Pharma index was down 0.17 per cent at 12933.75 at the time of writing this report.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 7.8 points at 18650.55, while the BSE Sensex was up 61.09 points at 62687.45.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 21 were trading in the green, while 29 were in the red.

Shares of Central Bank, Suzlon Energy, UCO Bank, YES Bank and PNB were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of Sarveshwar Foods, B L Kashyap, Krishna Defence and Allied Industries Ltd., Central Bank and Kaynes Technology India Ltd. hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while AAA Technologies, DJ Mediaprint & Logi, Future Consumer and Sanwaria Consumer hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.