NEW DELHI: Axis Bank (number of shares traded: 2.09 crore), YES Bank (1.76 crore) and State Bank of India (0.55 crore) were among the most traded stocks on NSE during the early trade on Friday.

Reliance Industries (0.46 crore), Punjab National Bank (0.41 crore), ICICI Bank (0.36 crore), NHPC (0.27 crore), Bank of Baroda (0.26 crore), Bharti Infratel (0.22 crore), DLF (0.21 crore), Idea Cellular (0.21 crore) and Bharti Airtel (0.19 crore) were also among the most traded stocks on NSE.

Equity benchmarks were trading in the positive territory tracking positive global cues.

Buying was seen across sectors barring IT.

The NSE Nifty index was trading 78 points up at 10,696, while the BSE Sensex was up 291 points at 35,004 around 09:55 am (IST).

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 35 were trading in the green, while 15 were in the red.

Axis Bank (up 5.15 per cent), State Bank of India (up 3.39 per cent), ICICI Bank (up 3.35 per cent) and Reliance Industries (up 3.03 per cent) were the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Tata Consultancy Services (down 2.03 per cent), Wipro (down 1.37 per cent), Tech Mahindra (down 1.17 per cent) and HCL Technologies (down 0.89 per cent) were the top losers in the Nifty index.