NEW DELHI: The Nifty Financial Services index was flat with most of its components trading mixed in Tuesday's afternoon session.

Shares of Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Company (up 1.80 per cent), Housing Development Finance Corporation (up 1.18 per cent), Kotak Mahindra Bank (up 0.39 per cent) and State Bank of India (up 0.34 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.

Indiabulls Ventures (down 2.96 per cent), Indiabulls Housing Finance (down 1.79 per cent), Power Finance Corporation (down 1.54 per cent), and ICICI Bank (down 1.32 per cent) were trading with losses.

The Nifty Financial Services index was trading 0.10 per cent up at 12,489.80 around 02:04 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 17 points at 11,581.25 while the BSE Sensex was down 22.79 points at 38,577.55.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 22 were trading in the green, while 26 were in the red.

Shares of PC Jeweller, ICICI Bank, YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, DHFL, Suzlon Energy, Dish TV India, Tata Motors, Marico and Federal Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.