NEW DELHI: The Nifty Financial Services index was trading lower although most of its components were trading in the positive zone.

Shares of Edelweiss Financial Services (up 2.55 per cent), REC (up 2.19 per cent), Max Financial Services (up 1.35 per cent) and ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company (up 1.30 per cent) were the top performers in the index.

Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Company (up 0.94 per cent), Indiabulls Ventures (up 0.66 per cent), Bajaj Holdings & Investment (up 0.64 per cent) and HDFC Life Insurance Company (up 0.61 per cent) too were trading with gains.

The Nifty Financial Services index was trading 0.18 per cent down at 12,012.55 around 02:15 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 5.35 points at 11,336.35 while the BSE Sensex was up 3.09 points at 37,755.26.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 24 were trading in the green, while 26 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, SAIL, DLF, Ashok Leyland, SBI, Bank of Baroda, Tata Motors, Coal India, BEL, Indian Oil Corp, ICICI Bank, RIL, NTPC, ITC, Sun Pharma, IndusInd Bank and Axis Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.