Shares of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), Divis’ Laboratories Ltd and Tata Steel Ltd were trading on Monday morning on NSE, as the most active stocks in terms of value on by Rs 58.42 crore, Rs 54.66 crore and Rs 54.02 crore, respectively.
Media Company, NDTV shot up by around 5 percent on the exchanges during Monday’s trade. The stock jumped to breach its upper circuit of Rs 55.75, up by 4.99 percent on BSE in the early trade on Monday.
The other stocks in terms of value includes Axis Bank by Rs 48.95 cr, Maruti Suzuki Ltd by Rs 37.38 cr, Vedanta Ltd by Rs 36.70 cr, Aurobindo Pharma by Rs 35.14 cr, SBI by Rs 35.09 crore, Dr Reddy’s Labs by Rs 34.95 cr, India bulls Housing by Rs 33.11 cr, Bajaj Finance by Rs 32.24 cr and Tata Motors by Rs 32.15 cr.
The BSE Sensex is trading at 31,690 down by 214 points, while NSE Nifty is trading at 9,879 down by 84 points. A total of 17 stocks clocked a fresh 52-week high in trade today, while 47 stocks registered a new 52-week low on the NSE.
On the other hand, stocks of Bharti Infratel up 1.47%, Power Grid up 1.36%, Tata Power up 1%, TCS up 0.78%, ITC up 0.30%, NTPC up 0.24% and HUL up 0.23% were gaining in trade. All the sectorial stocks were trading in negative terrain. The Nifty realty index was down 2.27%, while Nifty Bank index fell 0.96%.
FPIs sold shares worth a net Rs. 1,241.73 crore on Friday, as per provisional data released by the exchanges. Adani Ports, Tata Steel, and L&T were major losers, while TCS and Power Grid were top gainers.