INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Telecom stocks were trading mixed in afternoon trade on Friday.
The BSE Telecom index was trading 0.13 per cent up at 1,160
around 02:30 pm, with 10 stocks up and 7 down
Himachal Futuristic Communications (up 6.16 per cent), Reliance Communications (up 3.83 per cent) and Vindhya Telelinks (up 2.46 per cent)
were the top gainers in the telecom index
GTL (up 2.18 per cent), ITI (up 1.69 per cent), Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL) (up 1.34 per cent), Idea Cellular (up 0.89 per cent) and
Sterlite Technologies (up 0.80 per cent) too were trading with gains.
However, GTL Infrastructure (down 4.90 per cent), GTPL Hathway (down
1.09 per cent), Tejas Networks (down 0.94 per cent), OnMobile Global (down 0.91 per cent), Tata Communications (down 0.82 per cent), Tata
Teleservices (Maharashtra) (down 0.60 per cent) and Bharti Airtel (down 0.35 per cent) were among the losers in the index
Benchmark BSE Sensex was up 340 points at 38,003, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 96 points at 11,481.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty
index, 37 were trading in the green, while 13 were in the red
In the Sensex index, 22 stocks were advancing, while 9 were declining.
YES Bank, Vedanta and State Bank of India were leading among Sensex
