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

Shares of Oriental Bank of Commerce (up 4.18 per cent), Syndicate Bank (up 2.92 per cent), Union Bank of India (up 2.55 per cent) and Allahabad Bank (up 2.02 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.

Bank of India (up 1.68 per cent), Canara Bank (up 1.65 per cent), Bank of Baroda (up 1.48 per cent) and Punjab National Bank (up 0.98 per cent) too were trading with gains.

The Nifty PSU Bank index was trading 1.05 per cent up at 3299.85 around 09:55 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 20.95 points at 12,067.60 while the BSE Sensex was down 43.99 points at 40,223.63.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 24 were trading in the green, while 26 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, PNB, SAIL, Bank of Baroda, IDBI Bank, Manappuram Finance, Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland and NCC were among the most traded securities on the NSE.

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