NEW DELHI: Vodafone Idea with over 0.27 crore shares changing hands was leading among the most traded stocks on NSE on Wednesday.Shares of YES Bank (number of shares traded: 0.16 crore), DHFL (number of shares traded: 0.13 crore), Indiabulls RE (number of shares traded: 0.10 crore), Wipro (number of shares traded: 0.09 crore), Ashok Leyland (number of shares traded: 0.09 crore), HDFC Bank (number of shares traded: 0.09 crore), PNB (number of shares traded: 0.08 crore), Praj Industries (number of shares traded: 0.07 crore) and Hindalco Inds.
(number of shares traded: 0.07 crore) also featured among the most traded stocks on the NSE.HDFC Bank (Rs 198.27 crore) was leading the pack of most active stocks in value terms.It was followed by YES Bank (Rs 44.74 crore), RIL (Rs 29.51 crore), Wipro (Rs 26.51 crore), Indiabulls Housing Finance (Rs 25.07 crore), Shriram Transport Finance (Rs 24.79 crore), TCS (Rs 24.67 crore) , DHFL (Rs 23.26 crore), ICICI Bank (Rs 21.09 crore) and Infosys (Rs 20.09 crore).The NSE Nifty index was trading 22.25 points down at 11,649.70 while the BSE Sensex was down 62.66 points at 38,876.56 around 09:17 am.
In the Nifty index, Wipro (up 1.17 per cent), Cipla (up 1.02 per cent), YES Bank (up 0.89 per cent), Tech Mahindra (up 0.60 per cent) and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation (up 0.54 per cent) were among the top gainers.
While Hindalco Industries (down 2.03 per cent), Adani Ports Special Economic Zone (down 1.23 per cent), Eicher Motors (down 1.08 per cent), Hero MotoCorp (down 1.02 per cent) and Housing Development Finance Corporation (down 0.92 per cent) were among the top losers.