Share market update: PSU Bank shares gain; BoB rises over 2%

NEW DELHI: Shares of PSU banks were trading with gains in Friday's morning session.

Shares of Bank of India (up 2.97 per cent), Bank of Baroda (up 2.63 per cent), Jammu & Kashmir Bank (up 2.15 per cent) and Union Bank of India (up 2.08 per cent) were the top performers in the index.

Canara Bank (up 2.01 per cent), Syndicate Bank (up 1.91 per cent), Indian Bank (up 1.64 per cent) and Central Bank of India (up 1.60 per cent) too were trading with gains.

The Nifty PSU Bank index was trading 1.70 per cent up at 3204.30 around 09:58 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 46.75 points at 11,703.80 while the BSE Sensex was up 170.79 points at 38,982.18.

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

Shares of GRUH Finance, Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Bank of Baroda, BEL, Ashok Leyland, Adani Power, Adani Enterprises, Reliance Capital and SBI were among the most traded securities on the NSE.

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