NEW DELHI: Shares of PSU were trading in the negative zone in Thursday's afternoon session.
Shares of HPCL (down 2.32 per cent), Oil India (down 2.02 per cent), REC (down 1.93 per cent), NTPC (down 1.86 per cent), Power Finance Corporation (down 1.72 per cent), National Aluminium Company (down 1.66 per cent), Coal India (down 1.53 per cent), GAIL (India) (down 1.29 per cent), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (down 0.94 per cent), Indian Oil Corporation (down 0.88 per cent), National Mineral Development Corp (down 0.31 per cent), General Insurance (down 0.3 per cent), Oil - Natural Gas Corporation (down 0.28 per cent) and Steel Authority of India (down 0.19 per cent) were the top losers in the index.
The Nifty PSE index was trading 0.69 per cent down at 3252.8 around 12:08 pm.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 11.10 points at 12332.2 , while the BSE Sensex was down 22.86 points at 41,849.87.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 19 were trading in the green, while 31 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, GMR Infra, SBI, Tata Motors, JSPL, BEL, SAIL, Federal Bank and Tata Power were among the most traded shares on the NSE.