NEW DELHI: Reliance Communications emerged as the most active stock on NSE in morning trade on Thursday.With over 1.25 crore shares changing hands, the scrip led the pack of most traded stocks.It was followed by Tata Motors (number of shares traded: 0.84 crore) and PC Jeweller (0.76 crore)Vedanta (0.58 crore), JP Associates (0.49 crore), Ashok Leyland (0.46 crore), Jet Airways (0.40 crore), State Bank of India (0.40 crore), Ruchi Soya Industries (0.39 crore) and GVK Power Infra (0.39 crore) also featured in the league of most traded stocks in that order.Market registered a positive opening underpinned by gains in IT, financial and bank stocks following overnight gains in the Wall Street.US stocks ended with small gains on Wednesday after minutes from the Federal Reserve's latest meeting suggested higher inflation may not result in faster interest rate hikes, Reuters reported.
The NSE Nifty index was trading 23 points up at 10,453, while the BSE Sensex was up 112 points at 34,457 around 09:40 am.In the Nifty index, 25 stocks were trading with gains, while 25 were suffering losses.
Infosys, HCL Technologies, Tech Mahindra, Tata Steel, Tata Consultancy Services and HDFC were leading the pack of Nifty gainers.On the other hand, Tata Motors, HPCL, BPCL, ONGC, GAIL (India) and Vedanta were leading among Nifty losers.