NEW DELHI: The Nifty Financial Services index was up with its components trading higher in Tuesday's afternoon session.

Shares of Bajaj Holdings & Investment (up 2.80 per cent), ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company (up 1.45 per cent), Power Finance Corporation (up 1.42 per cent) and State Bank of India (up 1.38 per cent) were trading with gains.

Max Financial Services (up 1.13 per cent), Bajaj Finserv (up 0.92 per cent), Bajaj Finance (up 0.88 per cent) and Axis Bank (up 0.77 per cent) too were trading with gains.

The Nifty Financial Services index was trading 0.13 per cent up at 12,515.85 around 12:39 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 39.55 points at 11,708.70 while the BSE Sensex was up 154.35 points at 39,026.22.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 29 were trading in the green, while 21 were in the red.

Shares of Tata Motors, Vodafone Idea, BEL, Bank of Baroda, SBI, YES Bank, SAIL, DLF, Ashok Leyland, Bharti Airtel, BHEL, ICICI Bank, Zee Entertainment, Indian Oil Corp, NTPC, ONGC, PowerGrid, Tata Motors, Vedanta and RIL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.