Stock market update: Nifty Bank index falls 0.31% in a weak market

NEW DELHI: The Nifty Bank index traded negative around 10:04AM(IST)on Thursday in a weak market.

State Bank of India(up 0.36 per cent) and Kotak Mahindra Bank(up 0.29 per cent) were among the top gainers.

AU Small Finance Bank(down 2.1 per cent), Bandhan Bank(down 0.9 per cent), ICICI Bank(down 0.65 per cent), IndusInd Bank(down 0.58 per cent) and Punjab National Bank(down 0.53 per cent) were the top losers on the index.

The Nifty Bank index was down 0.31 per cent at 42825.7 at the time of writing this report.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 1.0 points at 18041.95, while the BSE Sensex was down 68.49 points at 60588.96.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 36 were trading in the green, while 14 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Suzlon Energy, Vodafone Idea, PNB and IOB were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of Kapston Facilities, Eurotex Ind, BLB Ltd., TVS Electronics and Archean Chemical Industries Ltd. hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Jyoti Structure, Sumeet Ind, Paras Petrofils, Consol Const. and Sathavahana Isp hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.