Stock market update: Nifty Auto index falls 0.02% in a weak market
Bajaj Auto Ltd.(up 4.54 per cent), Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(up 2.1 per cent) and TVS Motor Company Ltd.(up 0.52 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Bharat Forge Ltd.(down 1.5 per cent), Tata Motors Ltd.(down 1.02 per cent), Balkrishna Industries Ltd.(down 1.01 per cent), Tube Investments of India Ltd.(down 0.96 per cent) and Ashok Leyland Ltd.(down 0.91 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Auto index was down 0.02 per cent at 16531.3 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 85.9 points at 19585.2, while the BSE Sensex was down 298.02 points at 65579.0.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 8 were trading in the green, while 42 were in the red.
Shares of NBCC, Suzlon Energy, Vodafone Idea, JP Power and IRB Infra Dev.
were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Shakti Pumps, GKW Ltd, DB(Intl)Stock, PNB Gilts and Jindal Poly Investm hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Gensol Engg, Winsome Yarns, Delta Corp, Adani Gas and Navin Fluorine hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.
