Buzzing stocks: YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, RIL, BPCL

NEW DELHI: YES Bank with over 1.20 crore shares changing hands was leading among the most traded stocks on NSE on Monday.

Shares of Alok Industries (number of shares traded: 0.98 crore), Vodafone Idea (number of shares traded: 0.71 crore), Reliance Communications (number of shares traded: 0.61 crore), Equitas Holdings (number of shares traded: 0.36 crore), Cox & Kings (number of shares traded: 0.36 crore), BEL (number of shares traded: 0.33 crore), BPCL (number of shares traded: 0.32 crore), ONGC (number of shares traded: 0.24 crore) and GAIL (number of shares traded: 0.22 crore) also featured among the most traded stocks on the NSE.

3M India (Rs 210.24 crore) was leading the pack of most active stocks in value terms.

It was followed by RIL (Rs 206.39 crore), BPCL (Rs 127.75 crore), YES Bank (Rs 82.11 crore), Indiabulls Housing Finance (Rs 62.30 crore), ICICI Bank (Rs 60.11 crore) , HDFC Bank (Rs 59.32 crore), Maruti Suzuki (Rs 53.07 crore), HDFC (Rs 46.75 crore) and TCS (Rs 41 crore).

The NSE Nifty index was trading 71.45 points down at 11,004.45 while the BSE Sensex was down 240.27 points at 37,144.72 around 09:22 am.

In the Nifty index, Oil And Natural Gas Corporation (up 2.56 per cent), Indiabulls Housing Finance (up 2.08 per cent), Titan Company (up 1.19 per cent), Tata Consultancy Services (up 0.90 per cent) and Wipro (up 0.84 per cent) were among the top gainers.

While Bharat Petroleum Corporation (down 5.02 per cent), YES Bank (down 3.06 per cent), Indian Oil Corporation (down 2.92 per cent), Asian Paints (down 2.69 per cent) and Reliance Industries (down 2.38 per cent) were the top losers in the index.