NEW DELHI: The Nifty Financial Services index was down with its components trading lower in Friday's afternoon session.
Shares of State Bank of India (down 1.02 per cent), HDFC Bank (down 0.98 per cent), Power Finance Corporation (down 0.93 per cent), SBI Life (down 0.74 per cent), HDFC (down 0.59 per cent), ICICI PRU LIFE (down 0.44 per cent), Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (down 0.37 per cent), Kotak Mahindra Bank (down 0.29 per cent), REC (down 0.25 per cent), Mahindra - Mahindra Financial (down 0.24 per cent), ICICI Bank (down 0.2 per cent), Axis Bank (down 0.16 per cent), Bajaj Holdings - Investment (down 0.11 per cent) and Bajaj Finance (down 0.01 per cent) were the top losers in the index.
The Nifty Financial Services index was trading 0.49 per cent down at 14,583.75 around 11:52 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 8.65 points at 12346.85 , while the BSE Sensex was up 6.07 points at 41938.63 .
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 20 were trading in the green, while 29 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, SBI, Bharti Airtel, IDFC First Bank Ltd., Bharti Infratel, PNB, SAIL, Bank of Baroda and NBCC were among the most traded shares on the NSE.