Share market update: Pharma shares slip; Sun Pharma down 4%

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

Shares of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (down 3.89 per cent), Piramal Enterprises (down 2.26 per cent), Glenmark Pharmaceuticals (down 1.17 per cent) and Lupin (down 0.93 per cent) were trading with losses.

Divi's Laboratories (down 0.82 per cent), Cadila Healthcare (down 0.74 per cent) and Cipla (down 0.59 per cent) too were trading lower.

The Nifty Pharma index was trading 1.24 per cent down at 7971.70 around 10:08 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 31.05 points at 10,878.95 while the BSE Sensex was up 121.13 points at 36,765.55.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 32 were trading in the green, while 17 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Dish TV India, Tata Motors, Vodafone Idea, DLF, Bank of Baroda, JSPL, Ashok Leyland and PNB were among the most traded shares on the NSE.