NEW DELHI: Shares of PSU were trading in the negative zone in Friday's afternoon session.
Shares of GAIL (India) (down 2.64 per cent) , Coal India (down 1.85 per cent), National Aluminium Company (down 1.48 per cent), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (down 1.27 per cent), Indian Oil Corporation (down 1.05 per cent) , NHPC (down 1.02 per cent) , Power Finance Corporation (down 0.97 per cent) , Power Grid Corporation of India (down 0.36 per cent) , NTPC (down 0.33 per cent) , National Mineral Development Corp (down 0.23 per cent) , Bharat Heavy Electricals (down 0.21 per cent) , General Insurance (down 0.19 per cent) , REC (down 0.18 per cent) , Oil - Natural Gas Corporation (down 0.16 per cent) , Container Corporation of India (down 0.09 per cent) and HPCL (down 0.08 per cent) were the top losers in the index.
The Nifty PSE index was trading 0.7 per cent down at 3225.8 around 12:07 pm.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 12.40 points at 12343.1 , while the BSE Sensex was down 8.31 points at 41,924.25.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 18 were trading in the green, while 31 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, SBI, Bharti Airtel, IDFC First Bank Ltd., Bharti Infratel, PNB, SAIL, NBCC and Bank of Baroda were among the most traded shares on the NSE.