INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: With over 10.44 crore shares changing hands, Reliance Communications emerged as the most traded stock on NSE on Monday.
PC
Jeweller (number of shares traded: 5 crore) and GMR Infra (4.12 crore) were up next.
Suzlon Energy (3.06 crore), SAIL (2.41 crore), JP
Associates (2.34 crore), Bank of Baroda (2.23 crore) and HDFC Bank (2.22 crore) also featured among the most traded stocks on NSE, in that
order.
Indian equity benchmarks extended losses to the second session on Monday due to losses in bank, FMCG, financial, telecom and capital
goods stocks even as global cues were mostly positive.
Investors' risk appetite remained subdued ahead of India's central bank's monetary
policy review meeting that began today and will conclude on Wednesday.
The BSE Sensex took a downward plunge of 215 points, or 0.61 per
cent, to settle at 35,012, while the Nifty index tanked 68 points, or 0.63 per cent, to finish Monday's session at 10,629.
In the Nifty
index, 15 stocks managed to close the day with gains, while 35 remained in the negative zone.
The Sensex saw 7 stocks advancing, while 24
declining at the end of Monday's trade
