NEW DELHI: Reliance Communications with over 1.38 crore shares changing hands was leading among the most traded stocks on NSE on Monday. Shares of YES Bank (number of shares traded: 0.46 crore), Vakrangee (number of shares traded: 0.45 crore), Indian Oil Corp (number of shares traded: 0.40 crore), Ashok Leyland (number of shares traded: 0.27 crore), Suzlon Energy (number of shares traded: 0.25 crore), Idea Cellular (number of shares traded: 0.25 crore), JP Associates (number of shares traded: 0.24 crore), Adani Power (number of shares traded: 0.23 crore) and Infibeam Avenues (number of shares traded: 0.21 crore) also featured among the most traded stocks on the NSE. RIL (Rs 136.43 crore) was leading the pack of most active stocks in value terms. It was followed by Kotak Bank (Rs 122.64 crore) , HDFC Bank (Rs 81.47 crore) , TCS (Rs 78.60 crore) , YES Bank (Rs 74.80 crore) , Sun Pharma (Rs 74.69 crore), Indiabulls Housing Finance (Rs 68.12 crore) , HDFC (Rs 54.20 crore) , Indian Oil Corp (Rs 52.72 crore) and Maruti Suzuki (Rs 47.45 crore).

The NSE Nifty index was trading 156.5 points down at 10,537.2 while BSE Sensex was down 511.45 points at 35,161.8 around 09:28 am on Monday. In the Nifty index, Wipro (up 0.62 per cent), Tech Mahindra (up 0.53 per cent), HCL Technologies (up 0.47 per cent), GAIL (India) (up 0.45 per cent) and Tata Consultancy Services (up 0.19 per cent) were among the top gainers.

Indiabulls Housing Finance (down 4.25 per cent), Adani Ports Special Economic Zone (down 3.53 per cent), Reliance Industries (down 3.05 per cent), UltraTech Cement (down 2.73 per cent) and Power Grid Corporation of India (down 2.57 per cent) were the top losers in the Nifty pack of stocks.