Share market update: BSE Power index up; JSW Energy climbs over 3%

NEW DELHI: The S&P BSE Power index was up with most of its components trading higher in Wednesday's afternoon session.

The S&P BSE Power index was trading 0.30 per cent up at 2050.36 around 12:18 pm.

Shares of JSW Energy (up 3.51 per cent), Suzlon Energy (up 2.56 per cent), Tata Power Company (up 2.11 per cent) and CESC (up 1.64 per cent) were the top performers in the index.

GMR Infrastructure (up 1.54 per cent), Siemens (up 1.08 per cent), Reliance Infrastructure (up 1.05 per cent) and KEC International (up 1.05 per cent) too were trading higher.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 24.95 points at 11,508.20 while the BSE Sensex was up 109.46 points at 38,342.87.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 30 were trading in the green, while 20 were in the red.

Shares of United Breweries, GMR Infra, Suzlon Energy, YES Bank, Aditya Birla Capital, Reliance Power, PNB, JP Associates, IDFC First Bank, Jet Airways, Reliance Capital, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company, SBI, Ashok Leyland and DHFL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.