NEW DELHI: Shares of Private banks were trading lower in Wednesday's afternoon session.

Shares of DCB Bank (down 2.01 per cent), Federal Bank (down 1.80 per cent), RBL Bank (down 1.24 per cent) and ICICI Bank (down 0.31 per cent)

YES Bank (down 0.30 per cent), IDFC First Bank (down 0.18 per cent) and Axis Bank (down 0.13 per cent)

The Nifty Private Bank index was trading 0.11 per cent up at 17,246.25 around 02:16 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 0.70 points at 11,712.50 while the BSE Sensex was up 48.92 points at 39,105.57.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 20 were trading in the green, while 29 were in the red.

Shares of Tata Motors, SAIL, Bank of Baroda, DLF, YES Bank, SBI, Ashok Leyland and BHEL were among the most traded shares on the NSE on Wednesday.