Share market update: Nifty Financial Services index up; Indiabulls Housing Finance jumps 3%

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

Shares of Indiabulls Housing Finance (up 3.71 per cent), Indiabulls Ventures (up 3.33 per cent), Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Company (up 2.33 per cent) and Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services (up 2.08 per cent) were the top performers in the index.

Bajaj Finance (up 1.90 per cent), Power Finance Corporation (up 1.65 per cent), ICICI Bank (up 1.28 per cent) and HDFC Life Insurance Company (up 1.17 per cent) too were trading higher.

The Nifty Financial Services index was trading 0.25 per cent up at 12,378.15 around 02:05 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 40.95 points at 11,635.40 while the BSE Sensex was up 142.61 points at 38,787.79.

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

Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, Ashok Leyland, SAIL, Tata Motors, Bank of Baroda, Indiabulls Housing Finance, SBI, Bharti Airtel, Zee Ent., GAIL, RIL, DLF, Indian Oil Corp, ICICI Bank, ONGC, NTPC, HPCL, BPCL and ITC were among the most traded shares on the NSE.