Markets closed up today gathering a 0.54% gain.

Market breadth is horizontal. Of the 2958 stocks traded today, 1638 showed gains, and 1185 showed losses.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Idea Cellular Limited (115.20 10.24%), United Spirits Limited (3959.00 7.45%) and Just Dial Limited (553.50 7.16%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Rajesh Exports Limited (818.00 -4.33%), Cummins India Limited (957.40 -2.07%) and Jubilant Life Sciences Limited (770.25 -2.07%).

Crowd Puller Stocks

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Symphony Limited (2024.00 17.67%), Prism Cement Limited (135.35 11.91%) and Idea Cellular Limited (115.20 10.24%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were YAMINI INVESTMENTS COMPANY LTD. (10.74 -4.96%), Arvind Limited (446.80 -0.94%) and Take Solutions Limited (168.60 -0.62%).

Finolex Industries Limited (664.80 1.16%) was trading at 78.6 times of weekly average. Bajaj Corp Limited (490.05 0.63%) and United Breweries Limited (1154.85 6.98%) were trading with volumes 53.2 and 52.0 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

59 stocks took off, crossing 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - Aarti Industries Limited (1175.00 2.62%), Adani Enterprises Limited (192.30 5.02%) and Adani Power Limited (46.40 4.98%).

20 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Wonderla Holidays Limited (390.10 7.45%) and IDFC Bank Limited (58.30 7.07%). 4 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Allahabad Bank (73.00 -1.22%) and Andhra Bank (58.80 -1.09%).