NEW DELHI: JP Power with over 0.31 crore shares changing hands was leading among the most traded stocks on NSE on Friday.Shares of Karuturi Global (number of shares traded: 0.21 crore), Axis Bank (number of shares traded: 0.15 crore), Vodafone Idea(number of shares traded: 0.13 crore), Reliance Power (number of shares traded: 0.11 crore), YES Bank (number of shares traded: 0.11 crore), Tata Steel (number of shares traded: 0.08 crore), Unitech (number of shares traded: 0.07 crore), PC Jeweller (number of shares traded: 0.06 crore) and Suzlon Energy (number of shares traded: 0.05 crore) also featured among the most traded stocks on the NSE.Axis Bank (Rs 108.03 crore) was leading the pack of most active stocks in value terms.It was followed by Tata Steel (Rs 36.33 crore), Maruti Suzuki (Rs 27.07 crore), YES Bank (Rs 23.55 crore), RIL (Rs 20.96 crore), HDFC Bank (Rs 19.96 crore), Biocon (Rs 19.32 crore), Infosys (Rs 17.70 crore), TCS (Rs 14.14 crore) and ICICI Bank (Rs 13.39 crore).The NSE Nifty index was trading 41.15 points up at 11,682.95 while the BSE Sensex was up 113.26 points at 38,844.12 around 09:16 am.
In the Nifty index, Axis Bank (up 2.42 per cent), Tata Steel (up 1.83 per cent), Bharti Infratel (up 1.77 per cent), Indiabulls Housing Finance (up 1.60 per cent) and HCL Technologies (up 1.36 per cent) were among the top gainers.
While Maruti Suzuki India (down 1.31 per cent), Bajaj Auto (down 0.26 per cent), Hero MotoCorp (down 0.20 per cent), Tata Motors (down 0.18 per cent) and Adani Ports Special Economic Zone (down 0.09 per cent) were the top losers in the index.