NEW DELHI: The Nifty Financial Services index was down with its components trading lower in Friday's afternoon session.
Shares of HDFC Bank (down 1.68 per cent) , State Bank of India (down 1.36 per cent) , Bajaj Finance (down 1.28 per cent) , Axis Bank (down 1.21 per cent) , Cholamandalam Investment - Finance (down 1.2 per cent) , Bajaj Finserv (down 1.1 per cent) , Mahindra - Mahindra Financial (down 1.05 per cent) , HDFC (down 0.67 per cent) , Bajaj Holdings - Investment (down 0.56 per cent) , Kotak Mahindra Bank (down 0.53 per cent) , ICICI Bank (down 0.51 per cent) , HDFC LIFE INSURANCE (down 0.5 per cent) , REC (down 0.38 per cent) , ICICI PRU LIFE (down 0.34 per cent) , Shriram Transport Finance (down 0.12 per cent) and Power Finance Corporation (down 0.04 per cent) were the top losers in the index.
The Nifty Financial Services index was trading 0.93 per cent down at 14,560.45 around 11:55 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 50.55 points at 12231.65 , while the BSE Sensex was 158.44 points at 41468.20.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 12 were trading in the green, while 38 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, GMR Infra, Tata Motors, ONGC, SAIL, Ibull HousingFin, GAIL, NBCC and Zee Ent.
were among the most traded shares on the NSE.