NEW DELHI: The Nifty Financial Services index was up with its components trading higher in Tuesday's afternoon session.
Shares of Axis Bank (up​ 16.38 per cent)​, ICICI Bank (up​ 12.37 per cent)​, HDFC LIFE INSURANCE (up​ 10.81 per cent)​, SBI Life (up​ 8.5 per cent)​, HDFC Bank (up​ 8.45 per cent)​, Kotak Mahindra Bank (up​ 6.06 per cent)​, ICICIGI (up​ 5.83 per cent)​, State Bank of India (up​ 5.24 per cent)​, Cholamandalam Investment & Finance (up​ 4.69 per cent)​, ICICIPRULI (up​ 4.29 per cent)​, Power Finance Corporation (up​ 3.48 per cent)​, Bajaj Holdings & Investment (up​ 2.96 per cent)​, HDFC (up​ 2.91 per cent)​, REC (up​ 2.18 per cent)​, Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (up​ 1.86 per cent)​ and Shriram Transport Finance (up​ 0.55 per cent)​ were among the top gainers.

The Nifty Financial Services index was trading 6.92 per cent up at 9154.65 around 02:08 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 585.50 points at 8669.3 , while the BSE Sensex was up 2041.77 points at 29632.72 .

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 48 were trading in the green, while 2 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, SBI, ICICI Bank, JSPL, NTPC, Axis Bank, IndusInd Bank, Ashok Leyland, Vedanta and Tata Motors were among the most traded shares on the NSE.