INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries (Rs 1,083.08 crore) finished Thursday's trade as the most active stock in terms of value on NSE.
ICICI Bank
(Rs 899.94 crore), HDFC Bank (Rs 695.30 crore) and HDFC (Rs 592.07 crore) were up next.
Tata Consultancy Services (Rs 530.55 crore), Tata
Steel (Rs 477.24 crore), DHFL (Rs 398.63 crore), Vedanta (Rs 386.87 crore), Mahindra Mahindra (Rs 373.17 crore) and Infosys (Rs 361.74
crore) also joined the bandwagon of most active stocks in value terms.
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
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.
Indian Oil Corporation, BPCL, HPCL, ICICI Bank, Reliance Industries and Bajaj
Finserv emerged as the top gainers in the Nifty index on Thursday.
On the contrary, Mahindra Mahindra, Bharti Infratel, Dr
Reddy's Laboratories, Titan Company, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries and Power Grid Corporation of India finished the day as the top losers in
