Stock market update: Nifty Bank index advances 0.45%

NEW DELHI: The Nifty Bank index closed on a positive note on Monday.

Shares of Axis Bank(up 1.19 per cent), Kotak Mahindra Bank(up 0.96 per cent), IDFCBANK(up 0.89 per cent), Federal Bank(up 0.59 per cent) and AU Small Finance Bank(up 0.53 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.

On the other hand, Punjab National Bank(down 1.23 per cent), Bandhan Bank(down 0.91 per cent) and IndusInd Bank(down 0.49 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.

The Nifty Bank index closed 0.45 per cent up at 43413.75.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 151.45 points at 18420.45, while the BSE Sensex stood up 468.38 points at 61806.19.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 5 ended in the green, while 44 closed in the red.

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

Shares of Rajshree Sugars, GOCL Corporation, Sakthi Sugars, Ponni Sugars and Marathon Nextgen hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Ishan International Ltd., Inox Green Energy Services Ltd., Cerebra Integrat, Sintex Inds. and Phantom Digital Effects Ltd. hit their fresh 52-week lows.