Share market update: Pharma shares dip; Cipla slips 3%

NEW DELHI: Pharma shares were trading lower in Monday's morning session with their sectoral index trading lower.

Shares of Cipla (down​ 2.82 per cent)​, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (down​ 1.03 per cent)​, Aurobindo Pharma (down​ 0.54 per cent)​, Cadila Healthcare (down​ 0.46 per cent)​, Piramal Enterprises (down​ 0.38 per cent)​ and Lupin (down​ 0.11 per cent)​ were the top losers in the index.

The Nifty Pharma index was trading 0.45 per cent down at 8294.3 around 09:58 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 1.95 points at 12111.5 , while the BSE Sensex was up 8.03 points at 41265.77 .

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 22 were trading in the green, while 28 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, SBI, SAIL, LIC Housing Fin, Tata Motors, ONGC, GAIL, Bank of Baroda and Manappuram Fin were among the most traded shares on the NSE.