NEW DELHI: Nearly 5.77 crore shares of Jaiprakash Associates changed hands during Thursday's trade, making it the most traded stock on NSE.It was followed by Reliance Communications (number of shares traded: 4.94 crore) and ICICI Bank (3.02 crore).IDFC Bank (2.41 crore), Firstsource Solutions (1.91 crore), CG Power and Industrial Solutions (1.85 crore), Punjab National Bank (1.79 crore) and Vedanta (1.69 crore) also featured among the most traded stocks on NSE, in that order.
Profit booking in bank, auto, pharma, FMCG and metal stocks spooked domestic equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty on Thursday, making them end the session in the negative territory a day after they had registered decent gains.Equity barometer Sensex lost 115 points, or 0.32 per cent, to settle at 35,432, with eight stocks advancing and 23 declining.
The Nifty50 closed the day 31 points, or 0.29 per cent, down at 10,741.
In the 50-share index, 16 stocks finished in the green and 34 in the red.Among the sectors on NSE, barring Nifty Financial Service, all went home with losses, with Nifty PSU Bank falling 2 per cent.Nifty Financial Service index stood flat.