NEW DELHI: Vodafone Idea with over 3.96 crore shares changing hands was leading among the most traded stocks on NSE on Wednesday.Shares of Alok Industries (number of shares traded: 0.46 crore), KSS Ltd (number of shares traded: 0.40 crore), Hindalco Inds.
(number of shares traded: 0.25 crore), NCC (number of shares traded: 0.22 crore), HDFC Bank (number of shares traded: 0.19 crore), Axis Bank (number of shares traded: 0.17 crore), Bandhan Bank (number of shares traded: 0.16 crore), Reliance Power (number of shares traded: 0.13 crore) and Future Retail (number of shares traded: 0.12 crore) also featured among the most traded stocks on the NSE.
HDFC Bank (Rs 153.62 crore) was leading the pack of most active stocks in value terms.It was followed by Metropolis Healthcare (Rs 108.01 crore), RIL (Rs 71.71 crore), HDFC (Rs 66.65 crore), Axis Bank (Rs 65.90 crore), Hind.
Unilever (Rs 61.64 crore), TCS (Rs 54.89 crore), Bharti Airtel (Rs 48.53 crore), Bajaj Finance (Rs 43.53 crore) and Maruti Suzuki (Rs 42.55 crore).The NSE Nifty index was trading 153.1 points up at 9146.95 , while BSE Sensex was up 543.4 points at 31233.42 around 09:17 am.
In the Nifty index, Larsen - Toubro (up 6.48 per cent), Hindalco Industries (up 5.81 per cent), IndusInd Bank (up 3.79 per cent), Dr.
Reddy's Laboratories (up 3.45 per cent) and UltraTech Cement (up 2.97 per cent) were among the top gainers.
While Maruti Suzuki India (down 1.82 per cent), Zee Entertainment Enterprises (down 0.69 per cent), Oil And Natural Gas Corporation (down 0.60 per cent), Bharti Infratel (down 0.20 per cent) and Cipla (down 0.35 per cent) were the top losers in the index.