NEW DELHI: The Nifty Financial Services index was up with its components trading higher in Tuesday's afternoon session. Shares of REC (up 2.74 per cent), ICICI Bank (up 1.82 per cent), ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company (up 1.76 per cent) and Bajaj Finserv (up 1.60 per cent) were the top performers in the index.

Shriram Transport Finance Company (up 1.28 per cent), Indiabulls Ventures (up 1.23 per cent), State Bank of India (up 1.18 per cent) and HDFC Life Insurance Company (up 1.18 per cent) too were trading higher.

The Nifty Financial Services index was trading 0.47 per cent up at 13,425.95 around 12:18 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 41.15 points at 11,629.50 while the BSE Sensex was up 129.90 points at 39,026.61.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 39 were trading in the green, while 11 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Dish TV India, Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, Vodafone Idea, Bank of Baroda, Federal Bank, Indiabulls Housing Finance, SAIL and Adani Power were among the most traded shares on the NSE.