Market breadth is holding steady, although the Sensex is down overall, with investors running for cover as North Korea and the US continue to rattle their sabers and exchange threats. Of the 2451 stocks traded today, 1261 were gainers and 1055 were losers.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Tata Global Beverages Limited (206.05 4.83%), Just Dial Limited (401.15 4.26%) and Engineers India Limited (EIL) (161.00 2.91%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Punjab National Bank (139.40 -3.19%), Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries Limited (478.45 -3.03%) and Divi's Laboratories Limited (702.45 -2.93%).

Movers and Shakers

15 stocks in BSE 500 are trading on high volumes today.

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Prism Cement Limited (117.25 7.08%), Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (20.20 5.76%) and IFB Industries Limited (732.50 4.64%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were Vijaya Bank (62.95 -5.34%), GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Limited (5190.00 -2.00%) and Gateway Distriparks Limited (218.25 -1.07%).

SKF India Limited (1572.00 3.08%) was trading at 292.0 times of weekly average. Thermax Limited (887.95 0.61%) and WABCO India Limited (5500.00 0.36%) were trading with volumes 53.7 and 9.3 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

20 stocks took off, crossing 52 week highs, while 3 stocks hit their 52 week lows.

Stocks touching their year highs included - Ambuja Cements Limited (285.40 1.26%), Bajaj Finance Limited (1844.95 2.90%) and Bharat Electronics Limited (194.00 1.02%).

Stocks making new 52 weeks lows included - Religare Enterprises Limited (42.70 1.07%) and Sanofi India Limited (3962.00 -0.92%).

8 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Firstsource Solutions Limited (38.95 3.45%) and TV Today Network Limited (267.25 1.89%). 9 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Vijaya Bank (62.95 -5.34%) and Swan Energy Limited (144.20 -3.29%).