NEW DELHI: Power shares were trading in the red with the S&P BSE Power index trading 1.22 per cent down at 1,920.85 around 11:50 am on Thursday. Shares of Bharat Heavy Electricals (down 2.90 per cent), CG Power and Industrial Solutions (down 2.75 per cent), JSW Energy (down 2.50 per cent), ABB India (down 2.40 per cent) and Siemens (down 2.05 per cent) were the top losers in the index.
KEC International (down 1.82 per cent), Thermax (down 1.76 per cent) and Power Grid Corporation of India (down 1.63 per cent) too appeared among top laggards.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 95 points at 10,129.75 while BSE Sensex was down 322.53 points at 33,711.43 at that time.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 10 were trading in the green, while 40 were in the red.
Shares of JP Associates, YES Bank, Reliance Communications, L&T Fin Holding, Adani Power, Dewan Housing, Infibeam Avenues, Vakrangee, South Indian Bank, Suzlon Energy, BHEL, PC Jeweller, PNB, Tata Motors, SBI, PFC and Motherson Sumi were among the most traded shares on the National Stock Exchange.