Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(up 0.98 per cent), TVS Motor Company Ltd.(up 0.89 per cent), Bajaj Auto Ltd.(up 0.88 per cent), Tata Motors Ltd.(up 0.81 per cent) and Tube Investments of India Ltd.(up 0.61 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Bharat Forge Ltd.(down 1.39 per cent), Balkrishna Industries Ltd.(down 0.7 per cent), Exide Industries Ltd.(down 0.68 per cent) and MRF Ltd.(down 0.58 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Auto index was up 0.54 per cent at 23394.25 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 17.05 points at 24559.55, while the BSE Sensex was up 36.17 points at 80773.68.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 27 were trading in the green, while 23 were in the red. Shares of Aditya Birla Retail, Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Reliance Power and Suzlon Energy were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Natural Capsule, GRSE, Camlin Fine Sc, Shree Vasu Logistics and Shree Global hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Aditya Birla Retail, Godha Cabcon & Insul, Rajnandini Metal, Prostarm Info System and Noida Toll Bridge Co hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.