NEW DELHI: The Nifty Financial Services index was up with most of its components trading on a mixed note in Monday's afternoon session.

Shares of Edelweiss Financial Services (up 3.81 per cent), Housing Development Finance Corporation (up 2.57 per cent), Bajaj Holdings & Investment (up 1.77 per cent) and Bajaj Finance (up 1.03 per cent) were the top performers in the index.

Indiabulls Ventures (down 4.45 per cent), Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Company (down 3.45 per cent), Indiabulls Housing Finance (down 3.40 per cent) and ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company (down 2.75 per cent) were trading with losses.

The Nifty Financial Services index was trading 0.34 per cent up at 12,290.10 around 02:22 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 15.20 points at 11,263.70 while the BSE Sensex was up 21.02 points at 37,484.01.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 18 were trading in the green, while 32 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, SBI, Bank of Baroda, ITC, Tata Steel, Tata Motors, ICICI Bank, SAIL, NTPC, Ashok Leyland, ZEEL, Indian Oil Corp, BHEL, RIL, Hindalco, Vedanta, Indiabulls Housing Finance, Motherson Sumi and Infosys were among the most traded shares on the NSE.