NEW DELHI: Pharma shares were trading lower in Tuesday's morning session with their sectoral index trading lower.Shares of Divi's Laboratories (down 1.91 per cent), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (down 0.86 per cent), Biocon (down 0.84 per cent) and Piramal Enterprises (down 0.77 per cent) were trading with losses.Aurobindo Pharma (down 0.71 per cent), Glenmark Pharmaceuticals (down 0.70 per cent) and Lupin (down 0.03 per cent) too were trading in the red.
The Nifty Pharma index was trading 0.53 per cent down at 8491.65 around 10:15 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 42.35 points at 12,046.20 while the BSE Sensex was down 109.12 points at 40,158.50.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 19 were trading in the green, while 31 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, Bank of Baroda, SAIL, PNB, IDBI Bank, Tata Motors, DLF, Manappuram Fin and Ashok Leyland were among the most traded shares on the NSE.