NEW DELHI: Vodafone Idea with over 0.69 crore shares changing hands was leading among the most traded stocks on NSE on Friday. Shares of YES Bank (number of shares traded: 0.28 crore), Tata Motors (number of shares traded: 0.18 crore), SBI (number of shares traded: 0.16 crore), Uttam Value Steel (number of shares traded: 0.15 crore), ONGC (number of shares traded: 0.14 crore), Reliance Power (number of shares traded: 0.14 crore), RIL (number of shares traded: 0.13 crore), Axis Bank (number of shares traded: 0.12 crore) and Alok Industries (number of shares traded: 0.11 crore) also featured among the most traded stocks on the NSE.
RIL (Rs 141.45 crore) was leading the pack of most active stocks in value terms. It was followed by HDFC (Rs 84.00 crore), HDFC Bank (Rs 72.43 crore), Hind.
Unilever (Rs 55.89 crore), Axis Bank (Rs 43.31 crore), TCS (Rs 42.72 crore), Bajaj Finance (Rs 30.07 crore), SBI (Rs 30.01 crore), ICICI Bank (Rs 29.82 crore) and Kotak Bank (Rs 24.92 crore) The NSE Nifty index was trading 64.55 points down at 8189.25, while the BSE Sensex was down 223.51 points at 28,041.8 around 09:17 am.
In the Nifty index, Oil And Natural Gas Corporation (up 3.80 per cent), Cipla (up 3.49 per cent), Reliance Industries (up 2.66 per cent), Hindustan Unilever (up 2.02 per cent) and Bharti Infratel (up 1.45 per cent) were among the top gainers.
While Kotak Mahindra Bank (down 5.93 per cent), IndusInd Bank (down 4.05 per cent), Housing Development Finance Corporation (down 3.95 per cent), Tata Motors (down 3.61 per cent) and ICICI Bank (down 2.73 per cent) were the top losers in the index.