Stock market update: Nifty Auto index falls 0.42%
Shares of Ashok Leyland Ltd.(up 1.99 per cent), Tube Investments of India Ltd.(up 1.38 per cent), Bharat Forge Ltd.(up 0.73 per cent), Tata Motors Ltd.(up 0.26 per cent) and MRF Ltd.(up 0.2 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(down 2.16 per cent), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(down 1.8 per cent), Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd.(down 1.77 per cent), TVS Motor Company Ltd.(down 0.9 per cent) and Balkrishna Industries Ltd.(down 0.68 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty Auto index closed 0.42 per cent down at 16286.7.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 30.05 points at 19425.35, while the BSE Sensex stood up 72.48 points at 64904.68.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 30 ended in the green, while 20 closed in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, JP Power, YES Bank, Reliance Power and Suzlon Energy were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of CarTrade Tech, Kothari Petro, Sharda Motor, Antony Waste Handlin and Venus Remedies hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while M K Proteins, Hindcon Chemicals, Compuage Infocom, AKG Exim Ltd. and Blue Jet Healthcare hit their fresh 52-week lows.
