Stock market update: Nifty Auto index advances 0.28%
Shares of Bosch Ltd.(up 2.35 per cent), Bajaj Auto Ltd.(up 2.22 per cent), Tube Investments of India Ltd.(up 1.52 per cent), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.(up 0.91 per cent) and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(up 0.71 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, Ashok Leyland Ltd.(down 1.15 per cent), Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(down 0.86 per cent), TVS Motor Company Ltd.(down 0.86 per cent), Bharat Forge Ltd.(down 0.81 per cent) and Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd.(down 0.79 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty Auto index closed 0.28 per cent up at 20481.6.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 81.55 points at 22122.25, while the BSE Sensex stood up 281.52 points at 72708.16.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 28 ended in the green, while 22 closed in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, NHPC, Indian Railway Fin and HFCL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Oriental Trimex, Pritish Nandy, MRPL, JBM Auto and BF Utilities hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Vaxtex Cotfab, Ebixcash World Money, N K Industries, Madhya Bharat Agro and Mask Investments hit their fresh 52-week lows.
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