Indices: Stock market update: Nifty Bank index advances 0.22% in an upbeat market

NEW DELHI: The Nifty Bank index traded positive around 10:14AM(IST)on Wednesday in an upbeat market.

AU Small Finance Bank(up 2.07 per cent), ICICI Bank(up 0.91 per cent), State Bank of India(up 0.84 per cent), Bank of Baroda(up 0.5 per cent) and Bandhan Bank(up 0.37 per cent) were among the top gainers.

IndusInd Bank(down 1.42 per cent), HDFC Bank(down 0.32 per cent), IDFCBANK(down 0.15 per cent) and Axis Bank(down 0.13 per cent) were the top losers on the index.

The Nifty Bank index was up 0.22 per cent at 33384.1 at the time of writing this report.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 7.4 points at 15739.5, while the BSE Sensex was up 30.24 points at 52723.81.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 31 were trading in the green, while 18 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, , Zomato Ltd., RBL Bank and SAIL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of

, Standard Ind, Globe Intl. Carriers, and hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Fidel ., , , Tata Comm and Ltd. hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.