NEW DELHI: Pharma shares were trading lower in Friday's morning session with their sectoral index in the red.Shares of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (down 0.64 per cent) , Biocon (down 0.64 per cent) , Cipla (down 0.49 per cent) and Lupin (down 0.46 per cent) were the top losers in the index.Aurobindo Pharma (down 0.41 per cent) , Cadila Healthcare (down 0.31 per cent) and Divi's Laboratories (down 0.24 per cent) too were trading lower.
The Nifty Pharma index was trading 0.27 per cent down at 9239.50 around 10:42 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 11.50 points at 11,509.55 while the BSE Sensex was down 28.09 points at 38,358.66.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 20 were trading in the green, while 30 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, NTPC, ONGC, Indian Oil Corp, SBI, Ashok Leyland, Bank of Baroda, Hindalco Inds.
and ICICI Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.