Shares of ICICI Bank Ltd.(up 2.81 per cent), HDFC Bank Ltd.(up 2.21 per cent), IDFC First Bank Ltd.(up 1.24 per cent), Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.(up 1.16 per cent) and Federal Bank Ltd.(up 0.15 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, Au Small Finance Bank Ltd.(down 5.29 per cent), Canara Bank(down 2.12 per cent), IndusInd Bank Ltd.(down 1.3 per cent), Punjab National Bank(down 0.67 per cent) and Bank of Baroda(down 0.54 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty Bank index closed 1.19 per cent up at 56952.75.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 122.3 points at 25090.7, while the BSE Sensex stood up 442.61 points at 82200.34.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 31 ended in the green, while 19 closed in the red. Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, JP Power, PC Jeweller and Paradeep Phosphates were among the most traded shares on the NSE. Shares of Gallantt Metal, Paradeep Phosphates, Borosil Renewables, Mangalore Chem and Bluspring Enterprises Ltd. hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Shriram EPC(PP), Smartworks Coworking, Reliance Comm, SKIL Infrastructure and LCC Infotech hit their fresh 52-week lows.
