Press "Enter" to skip to content

Share market update: BSE Utilities index gains; VA Tech Wabag surges 11%

NEW DELHI: The BSE Utilities index was trading with gains in Tuesday’s afternoon session.

Shares of VA Tech Wabag (up 11.03 per cent), Reliance Infrastructure (up 5.0 per cent), RTN Power (up 4.84 per cent), RTN Infra (up 4.47 per cent), Jaiprakash Power Ventures (up 4.46 per cent), Nava Bharat Ventures (up 3.81 per cent), GAIL (India) (up 2.61 per cent), Gujarat Industries Power (up 1.69 per cent), NLC India (up 1.52 per cent), NTPC (up 1.46 per cent), Indraprastha Gas (up 1.29 per cent) were among the top gainers.

While Orient Green Power Company (down 2.17 per cent), GMR Infrastructure (down 0.72 per cent), Alstom T&D India (down 0.64 per cent), CESC (down 0.54 per cent), A2Z Infra (down 0.53 per cent), Indian Energy (down 0.46 per cent), Adani Transmissions (down 0.45 per cent), Gujarat State Petronet (down 0.25 per cent), NHPC (down 0.21 per cent) and Torrent Power (down 0.11 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

The S&P BSE Utilities index was trading 1.11 per cent up at 1808.76 around 01:09 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty-50 index was down 31.70 points at 12224.15, while the BSE Sensex was 114.07 points at 41443.93.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 21 were trading in the green, while 28 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Tata Motors, Indiabulls Housing Finance, Spicejet, SAIL, Vakrangee, Hindalco Inds., PowerGrid and Bank of Baroda were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Source: Economic Times