Nifty 50 was trading at 14779.10 (103.4, 0.7%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 49927.84 (183.5, 0.4%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 12300.55 (88, 0.7%)
Market breadth is in the green. Of the 1693 stocks traded today, 1055 were gainers and 571 were losers.
Riding High:
Largecap and midcap gainers today include Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (114.10, 7.34%), Piramal Enterprises Ltd. (1912.40, 5.82%) and Tata Motors Ltd. (320.00, 5.09%).
Downers:
Largecap and midcap losers today include Adani Transmission Ltd. (727.25, -4.25%), Dr. Lal Pathlabs Ltd. (2293.80, -4.23%) and General Insurance Corporation of India (179.45, -3.60%).
Volume Shockers
8 stocks in BSE 500 are trading on high volumes today.
Top high volume gainers on BSE included Rain Industries Ltd. (158.60, 10.95%), Sudarshan Chemical Industries Ltd. (524.15, 4.84%) and Westlife Development Ltd. (472.00, 3.90%).
Top high volume loser on BSE was Procter & Gamble Health Ltd. (6992.30, -0.11%).
Sonata Software Ltd. (479.00, 2.73%) was trading at 6.0 times of weekly average. S H Kelkar & Company Ltd. (120.00, 2.61%) and Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning India Ltd. (2535.00, 3.08%) were trading with volumes 3.6 and 3.5 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.
BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages
23 stocks took off, crossing 52 week highs,
Stocks touching their year highs included - Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. (667.30, -0.96%), Indus Towers Ltd. (273.65, 2.74%) and Hindalco Industries Ltd. (329.25, 4.16%).
4 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Natco Pharma Ltd. (820.85, 3.29%) and Fine Organic Industries Ltd. (2384.00, 1.11%). 10 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. (679.00, -2.92%) and Ujjivan Financial Services Ltd. (229.00, -1.25%).