NEW DELHI: The S&P BSE Power index was trading 0.77 per cent down at 1988.65 around 11:50 am on Wednesday with most of its components trading lower.

Shares of Power Grid Corporation of India (down 1.73 per cent), Reliance Infrastructure (down 1.23 per cent), Suzlon Energy (down 1.09 per cent)and CG Power and Industrial Solutions (down 0.98 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

Torrent Power (down 0.98 per cent), Tata Power Company (down 0.85 per cent)and NTPC (down 0.74 per cent) too were trading lower.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 40.85 points at 10,869.25 while the BSE Sensex was down 95.80 points at 36,158.77.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 17 were trading in the green, while 33 were in the red.

Shares of Reliance Communications, JP Associates, YES Bank, Ashok Leyland, PNB, Hindustan Construction Company, Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, Vakrangee, NCC, Suzlon Energy, Vedanta , SBI, JSPL, Adani Power, South Indian Bank and Reliance Power were among the most traded shares on the NSE.