Stock market update: Nifty Auto index advances 0.14% in an upbeat market

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

Mahindra & Mahindra(up 1.25 per cent), Eicher Motors(up 0.94 per cent), Ashok Leyland(up 0.9 per cent), Tata Motors(up 0.48 per cent) and Bharat Forge(up 0.38 per cent) were among the top gainers. Bajaj Auto(down 1.22 per cent), Hero MotoCorp(down 0.91 per cent), Maruti Suzuki(down 0.77 per cent), MRF(down 0.75 per cent) and Balkrishna Industries(down 0.63 per cent) were the top losers on the index.

The Nifty Auto index was up 0.14 per cent at 15168.7 at the time of writing this report. Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 118.1 points at 19307.15, while the BSE Sensex was up 414.89 points at 65133.45.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 30 were trading in the green, while 20 were in the red. Shares of Suzlon Energy, Reliance Power, Vodafone Idea, YES Bank and Brightcom Group were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of ADF Foods, Starteck Finance, Kore Digital, The Hi-Tech Gears and Vasa Denticity hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Sanwaria Consumer, Gammon Infra, JBF Industries, Latteys Industries and Vilin Bio Med Ltd. hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.