Stock market update: Nifty Realty index advances 0.23%

NEW DELHI: The Nifty Realty index closed on a positive note on Thursday.

Shares of Sunteck Realty(up 2.25 per cent), Prestige Estates Projects(up 1.61 per cent), Phoenix Mills(up 0.92 per cent), Brigade Enterprises(up 0.61 per cent) and Macrotech Developers(up 0.51 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.

On the other hand, Indiabulls Real Estate(down 3.41 per cent), SOBHA(down 2.58 per cent), Oberoi Realty(down 0.15 per cent) and Godrej Properties(down 0.04 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.

The Nifty Realty index closed 0.23 per cent up at 428.7.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended down 50.8 points at 17992.15, while the BSE Sensex stood down 304.18 points at 60353.27.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 31 ended in the green, while 19 closed in the red.

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

Shares of Speciality Rest, Tainwala Chem, Kapston Facilities, Eurotex Ind and Vadilal Ind hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Vikas Proppant & Gr, Cyber Media Research & Services Ltd., Jyoti Structure, Sumeet Ind and Paras Petrofils hit their fresh 52-week lows.