Stock market update: Nifty Auto index advances 1.14%
Shares of Bajaj Auto Ltd.(up 4.82 per cent), TVS Motor Company Ltd.(up 1.46 per cent) and MRF Ltd.(up 0.46 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd.(down 2.95 per cent), Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(down 2.4 per cent), Tube Investments of India Ltd.(down 1.67 per cent), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.(down 1.17 per cent) and Balkrishna Industries Ltd.(down 0.62 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty Auto index closed 1.14 per cent up at 18618.2.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended down 47.3 points at 21731.4, while the BSE Sensex stood down 170.12 points at 72240.26.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 20 ended in the green, while 30 closed in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, Reliance Power, YES Bank, Alok Industries and JP Power were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Allcargo Terminals, BAG Films, Bharat Road Net, S Chand & Co and Mahamaya Steel hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Raj Rayon, IKIO Lighting, Azad Engineering, GIR Natureview and BDR Buildcon hit their fresh 52-week lows.
