Nifty 50 closed at 11515.95 (-55.3, -0.5%) , BSE Sensex closed at 38822.57 (-167.2, -0.4%) while the broader Nifty 500 closed at 9396.15 (-47.7, -0.5%)

Market breadth is in the red. Of the 1656 stocks traded today, 537 were gainers and 1038 were losers.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Vodafone Idea Ltd. (5.80, 11.54%), ABB India Ltd. (1542.00, 5.62%) and Procter & Gamble Hygiene & Healthcare Ltd. (12126.65, 5.37%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Indiabulls Ventures Ltd. (154.75, -16.98%), HEG Ltd. (1023.50, -10.11%) and Piramal Enterprises Ltd. (1722.35, -7.38%).

Crowd Puller Stocks

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included S H Kelkar & Company Ltd. (139.15, 7.24%), MOIL Ltd. (143.10, 6.99%) and Infibeam Avenues Ltd. (41.30, 4.16%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were Strides Pharma Science Ltd. (303.70, -7.61%), Coffee Day Enterprises Ltd. (50.55, -4.98%) and Phoenix Mills Ltd. (691.00, -3.36%).

NMDC Ltd. (91.25, 0.39%) was trading at 4.1 times of weekly average. Jagran Prakashan Ltd. (64.00, 0.16%) and Tube Investments of India Ltd. (385.35, -1.77%) were trading with volumes 3.5 and 3.4 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

15 stocks made 52 week highs, while 20 stocks were underachievers and hit their 52 week lows.

Stocks touching their year highs included - Bajaj Finance Ltd. (4068.95, 1.70%), Berger Paints (India) Ltd. (441.20, 1.64%) and Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Company Ltd. (310.60, 0.16%).

Stocks making new 52 weeks lows included - Allahabad Bank (29.70, -1.82%) and Corporation Bank (15.65, -3.99%).

14 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Infibeam Avenues Ltd. (41.30, 4.16%) and Max Financial Services Ltd. (430.55, 3.67%). 15 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including IDFC Ltd. (36.10, -6.60%) and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (1475.00, -4.72%).