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NEW DELHI: JP Associates, with over 1.33 crore shares changing hands, was leading among most traded stocks on NSE in Monday's session.
It was followed by Reliance Communications (number of shares traded: 1.28 crore), Adani Power (0.74 crore) and YES Bank (0.63 crore).
South Indian Bank (0.63 crore), Balrampur Chini (0.57 crore), HPCL (0.53 crore), NALCO (0.52 crore), Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar (0.52 crore) and ICICI Bank (0.41 crore) also featured among the most traded stocks on NSE.
Reliance Industries (RIL) (Rs 221.90 crore), on the other hand, was leading the pack of most active stocks in value terms.
Hindustan Unilever (HUL) (Rs 172.42 crore) and YES Bank (Rs 156.60 crore) were up next in the league of most active stocks in terms of value.
Tata Consultancy Services (Rs 150.32 crore), ICICI Bank (Rs 128.87 crore), Maruti Suzuki (Rs 123.89 crore), Indiabulls Housing Finance (Rs 112.54 crore), HPCL (Rs 110.53 crore), Bajaj Finance (Rs 108.34 crore) and ITC (Rs 108.22 crore) also featured among most traded stocks in value terms.
Equity benchmarks were in negative terrain amid weak Asian cues.
Rupee's fall, an uptick in global crude oil prices and caution ahead of September earnings weighed on market sentiment.
The NSE Nifty index was trading 44 points down at 10,429, while the BSE Sensex was down 118 points at 34,615 around 09:55 am.
In the Nifty index, 22 stocks were in the green and 28 were in the red.
Dr.
Reddy's Laboratories, Indiabulls Housing Finance, Cipla, Bharti Infratel and ONGC were among top Nifty gainers.
GAIL (India), Hindustan Unilever, Eicher Motors, ICICI Bank and HPCL were among the top losers in the Nifty index.
