Market Now: Power index down; Adani Transmission, Tata Power among top drags

Market Now: Power index down;  Adani Transmission, Tata Power among top drags
Bharti Airtel, Sun Pharma and Bajaj Auto were the top losers among the Sensex stocks.
NEW DELHI: The BSE Power index was trading 0.13 per cent down at 2,157 around 01:20 pm on Friday, with Adani Transmission (down 2.52 per cent) as the top loser.

Shares of Adani Power (down 1.84 per cent), Suzlon Energy (down 1.50 per cent), Tata Power Company (down 0.79 per cent), CG Power and Industrial Solutions (down 0.69 per cent), ABB India (down 0.58 per cent), Siemens (down 0.57 per cent), NHPC (down 0.36 per cent), NTPC (down 0.30 per cent), Reliance Power (down 0.28 per cent) and GMR Infrastructure (down 0.27 per cent) were in the red in the index.

On the other hand, shares of PTC India (up 4.98 per cent), Torrent Power (up 1.34 per cent), Reliance Infrastructure (up 0.77 per cent), Bharat Heavy Electricals (up 0.50 per cent), JSW Energy (up 0.36 per cent), CESC (up 0.25 per cent) and Power Grid Corporation of India (up 0.24 per cent) were in the green in the power index.

Gains in select oil, Bank, financial, metal and FMCG stocks were keeping the bourses up.

Benchmark BSE Sensex was up 104 points at 35,350, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 31 points at 10,747.

In the Sensex index, 21 were trading in the green, while 10 were in the red.

Asian Paints, Tata Steel, YES Bank and ICICI Bank were topping the Sensex index.

Bharti Airtel, Sun Pharma and Bajaj Auto were the top losers among the Sensex stocks.