NEW DELHI: Shares of PSU banks were trading in the positive zone in Wednesday's morning session.Shares of Bank of Baroda (up 2.25 per cent), Syndicate Bank (up 1.11 per cent) , Union Bank of India (up 0.61 per cent) and Canara Bank (up 0.59 per cent) were the top performers in the index.Punjab National Bank (up 0.46 per cent) , State Bank of India (up 0.44 per cent) , Bank of India (up 0.43 per cent) and Allahabad Bank (up 0.36 per cent) too were trading higher.
The Nifty PSU Bank index was trading 0.89 per cent up at 3455.75 around 10:06 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 33.45 points at 11,746.65 while the BSE Sensex was up 176.89 points at 39,233.54.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 34 were trading in the green, while 16 were in the red.
Shares of Tata Motors, Vodafone Idea, DLF, Bank of Baroda, SAIL, YES Bank, SBI, BEL, Bharti Airtel, Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland and HPCL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.