Stock market update: Nifty Auto index advances 1.13%
Shares of Eicher Motors Ltd.(up 7.43 per cent), Bajaj Auto Ltd.(up 2.57 per cent), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(up 1.92 per cent), Tube Investments of India Ltd.(up 1.74 per cent) and Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(up 0.98 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, Ashok Leyland Ltd.(down 1.04 per cent), Bosch Ltd.(down 0.62 per cent), TVS Motor Company Ltd.(down 0.3 per cent) and Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd.(down 0.16 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty Auto index closed 1.13 per cent up at 17687.25.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 418.9 points at 20686.8, while the BSE Sensex stood up 1383.93 points at 68865.12.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 45 ended in the green, while 5 closed in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, IFCI, YES Bank, PNB and JP Power were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Bhartiya Intnl, Paisalo Digital, Inox Wind Ltd., Emami Realty and Robust Hotels hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Flair Writing Indust, Penta Gold, Virinchi, Gandhar Oil Refinery and Tata Technologies hit their fresh 52-week lows.
