Stock market update: Nifty Bank index advances 1.12% in an upbeat market

NEW DELHI: The Nifty Bank index traded positive around 10:19AM(IST)on Friday in an upbeat market.

IndusInd Bank(up 3.82 per cent), HDFC Bank(up 2.04 per cent), ICICI Bank(up 1.42 per cent), Bank of Baroda(up 0.94 per cent) and State Bank of India(up 0.56 per cent) were among the top gainers.

IDFCBANK(down 0.92 per cent), Punjab National Bank(down 0.79 per cent), Federal Bank(down 0.75 per cent), Kotak Mahindra Bank(down 0.43 per cent) and AU Small Finance Bank(down 0.31 per cent) were the top losers on the index.

The Nifty Bank index was up 1.12 per cent at 41123.3 at the time of writing this report.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 68.4 points at 17678.8, while the BSE Sensex was up 385.73 points at 60317.97.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 28 were trading in the green, while 22 were in the red.

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

Shares of , , RBM Infracon Ltd., and hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Adani Ent., S H Kelkar & Co., , Adani Green and 8K Miles Soft hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.