INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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
