Share market update: Telecom shares in the red; Vodafone Idea slumps over 5%

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Telecom shares were trading in the negative terrain with the SP BSE Telecom index trading 1.7 per cent down at 989.83 on
Friday. Shares of Vodafone Idea (down 5.56 per cent), GTL Infrastructure (down 3.92 per cent), Tejas Networks (down 2.68 per cent) and
Bharti Infratel (down 2.58 per cent) were the top losers in the index
Bharti Airtel (down 1.94 per cent), Vindhya Telelinks (down 1.64 per cent) and Himachal Futuristic Communications (down 1.09 per cent) too
were trading with losses. Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 15.85 points at 10,842.85 while BSE Sensex was down 66.96 points at 36,103.45
around 02:22 pm
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 19 were trading in the green, while 31 were in the red. Shares of Reliance Communications, ICICI
Lombard General Insurance Company, YES Bank, Idea Cellular, Vakrangee, JP Associates, Hindustan Zinc, Ashok Leyland, Sun Pharma, Suzlon
Energy, Bank of Baroda, JSPL, PNB, Kwality, Vedanta and DHFL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.