Share market update: Nifty Pharma index down; Piramal Enterprises dips 3%

NEW DELHI: Pharma shares were trading lower in Tuesday's morning session with their sectoral index trading lower.

Shares of Piramal Enterprises (down 3.45 per cent), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (down 1.36 per cent) and Cadila Healthcare (down 1 per cent) were trading with losses.

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals (down 0.91 per cent), Biocon (down 0.48 per cent) and Aurobindo Pharma (down 0.32 per cent) too were trading lower.

The Nifty Pharma index was trading 0.33 per cent down at 7875.80 around 10:24 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 5 points at 11,694.65 while the BSE Sensex was down 31.60 points at 39,091.36.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 25 were trading in the green, while 24 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, Ashok Leyland, REC, Dish TV India, PNB, SAIL, Tata Steel, Motherson Sumi and JSPL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.