Three stocks, Indiabulls Housing Finance Company, Manappuram Finance and India Cements, will be banned from the trade for Thursday under the future & options (F&O) contracts, despite still being available for the cash market. The F&O contracts of a stock go into ban phase when the open interest exceeds 95% of the market-wide position limits, with the ban only lifted when it falls below 80%. Both the S&P BSE Sensex and Nifty50 indices finished Wednesday's trading higher, ahead of the RBI policy to be published later in the week.