Shares of Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.(up 3.48 per cent), Au Small Finance Bank Ltd.(up 0.74 per cent), State Bank of India(up 0.72 per cent), HDFC Bank Ltd.(up 0.71 per cent) and ICICI Bank Ltd.(up 0.44 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, Axis Bank Ltd.(down 0.83 per cent), Federal Bank Ltd.(down 0.73 per cent), Bank of Baroda(down 0.56 per cent), Canara Bank(down 0.5 per cent) and IndusInd Bank Ltd.(down 0.49 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty Bank index closed 0.54 per cent up at 57256.3.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 61.21 points at 25522.5, while the BSE Sensex stood up 270.01 points at 83712.51.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 26 ended in the green, while 24 closed in the red. Shares of JP Power, Vodafone Idea, Alok Industries, RattanIndia Power and PC Jeweller were among the most traded shares on the NSE. Shares of Sambhv Steel Tubes, Belrise Industries, Parsvnath Dev., Gabriel India and Ellenbarrie Ind. Gas hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Nectar Lifesc, PVP Ventures Ltd., Sadhana Nitro, Creative Peripherals and Anisha Impex hit their fresh 52-week lows.
