Stock market update: Nifty Bank index falls 0.01% in an upbeat market

NEW DELHI: The Nifty Bank index traded negative around 09:59AM(IST)on Tuesday in an upbeat market.

Punjab National Bank(up 1.95 per cent), Bank of Baroda(up 1.35 per cent), State Bank of India(up 1.3 per cent), ICICI Bank(up 0.89 per cent) and Federal Bank(up 0.37 per cent) were among the top gainers.

Bandhan Bank(down 2.35 per cent), IDFCBANK(down 2.23 per cent), AU Small Finance Bank(down 1.51 per cent), Kotak Mahindra Bank(down 1.4 per cent) and Axis Bank(down 1.19 per cent) were the top losers on the index.

The Nifty Bank index was down 0.01 per cent at 41300.35 at the time of writing this report.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 26.35 points at 17757.1, while the BSE Sensex was up 58.61 points at 59890.27.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 30 were trading in the green, while 20 were in the red.

Shares of BHEL, PNB, , and YES Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of Varanium Cloud Ltd., Sonu ., , Maks Energy Solutions India Ltd. and Jay Jalaram Technologies Ltd. hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Vikas Proppant & Gr, Phantom Digital Effects Ltd., , and hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.