NEW DELHI: Shares of Private Banks were trading higher with the Nifty Private Bank index up 0.41 per cent at 14,888.85 on Monday.Shares of YES Bank (up 6.31 per cent), Federal Bank (up 2.94 per cent), IndusInd Bank (up 2.13 per cent) and Kotak Mahindra Bank (up 1.15 per cent) were the top performers in the index.
South Indian Bank (up 1.03 per cent) and HDFC Bank (up 0.78 per cent) too were trading in the green.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 60.15 points at 10,742.35 while BSE Sensex was up 256.9 points at 35,714.06 around 02:20 pm.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 29 were trading in the green, while 20 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, Idea Cellular, Bank of Baroda, Ashok Leyland, ICICI Bank, ITC, Tata Motors, SBI, Vedanta and Bharti Airtel were among the most traded shares on the NSE.