NEW DELHI: Reliance Communications with over 9.64 crore shares changing hands was leading among the most traded stocks on NSE on Tuesday. Shares of YES Bank (number of shares traded: 2.78 crore), Infibeam Avenues (number of shares traded: 1.08 crore), Sun Pharma (number of shares traded: 0.97 crore), Suzlon Energy (number of shares traded: 0.87 crore), PC Jeweller (number of shares traded: 0.81 crore), JP Associates (number of shares traded: 0.79 crore), PFC (number of shares traded: 0.63 crore), NBCC (number of shares traded: 0.63 crore) and Idea Cellular (number of shares traded: 0.60 crore) also featured among the most traded stocks on the NSE. YES Bank (Rs 500.35 crore) was leading the pack of most active stocks in value terms. It was followed by Sun Pharma (Rs 444.42 crore), Indiabulls Housing Finance (Rs 383.56 crore), Hindustan Unilever (Rs 241.53 crore), HDFC (Rs 200.43 crore), MM (Rs 183.09 crore), TCS (Rs 177.11 crore), Reliance Comm (Rs 169.94 crore), RIL (Rs 162.08 crore) and Infosys (Rs 159.03 crore). The NSE Nifty index was trading 19.35 points down at 10,864.4, while BSE Sensex was down 106.17 points at 36,134.83 around 10:18 am on Tuesday.

In the Nifty index, Indiabulls Housing Finance (up 2.46 per cent), Infosys (up 2.04 per cent), Cipla (up 1.74 per cent), HCL Technologies (up 1.56 per cent) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation (up 1.54 per cent) were among the top gainers.

Housing Development Finance Corporation (down 2.13 per cent), Mahindra Mahindra (down 1.85 per cent), NTPC (down 1.79 per cent), HDFC Bank (down 1.23 per cent) and Hindustan Unilever (down 0.86 per cent) were the top losers in the Nifty pack of stocks.