INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: HDFC Bank (Rs 1,119.31 crore) finished Friday's session as the most active stock in terms of value on NSE.
Maruti Suzuki (Rs
876.99 crore) and ICICI Bank (Rs 868.94 crore) were up next in the league of most traded stocks in value terms.
Reliance Industries (Rs
812.53 crore), Tata Steel (Rs 524.51 crore), Bajaj Auto (Rs 516.50 crore), HDFC (Rs 489.42 crore), Vedanta (Rs 471.32 crore), Tata Motors
(Rs 455.84 crore) and State Bank of India (Rs 441.96 crore) also featured among most active stocks in value terms
Indian equity benchmarks landed in the negative terrain on Friday as losses in bank, financial and FMCG counters outpaced gains in auto and
telecom stocks.
The Sensex closed 95 points, or 0.27 per cent, down at 35,227, with 11 stocks advancing and 20 declining.
The Nifty finished
the day 40 points, or 0.37 per cent, down at 10,696, with 15 stocks in the green and 34 in the red
One stock remained unchanged in the index.
Barring Nifty Auto, all sectors closed the day in the red, with realty and PSU bank stocks
falling over 1 per cent.
Godrej Consumer Products, Hindustan Unilever, Nestle India and Torrent Pharmaceuticals hit 52-week highs on
NSE.
Shares of Bajaj Auto, Maruti Suzuki India and Bharti Airtel finished Friday's trade as the top gainers of Nifty index.
