NEW DELHI: Punjab National Bank (Rs 304.76 crore), Reliance Industries (Rs 126.29 crore) and Tata Steel (Rs 92.56 crore) were among the most active stocks in terms of value on NSE in morning trade on Wednesday.ICICI Bank (Rs 89.27 crore), Tata Motors (Rs 87.67 crore), Lupin (Rs 70.04 crore), Tata Consultancy Services (Rs 70.01 crore) and State Bank of India (Rs 68.70 crore) were also among the most active stocks in terms of value on NSE.Most active stocks in terms of value help investors to identify the stocks with the highest trading turnover during the day.Surge in US bond yields, a hung House in Karnataka polls and weakness in rupee dragged the domestic shares into negative territory on Wednesday.
The NSE Nifty index was trading 83 points down at 10,719, while the BSE Sensex was down 258 points at 35,286 around 09:45 am.Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty50 pack, 26 were trading in the green, while 24 were in the red.
Lupin, Hindalco Industries, Tech Mahindra, Wipro and Tata Steel were the top gainers in the Nifty index.On the contrary, Cipla, Hero MotoCorp, ICICI Bank and GAIL (India) were among the top Nifty losers.