The Closer: End Of Day update, Oct 03, 2019

Market sinks in today's trading. Nifty 50 closed at 11315.35 (-44.6, -0.4%) , BSE Sensex closed at 38106.87 (-198.5, -0.5%) while the broader Nifty 500 closed at 9199.95 (-36.5, -0.4%)

Market breadth is in the red. Of the 1646 stocks traded today, 586 were gainers and 971 were losers.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include YES Bank Ltd. (42.90, 34.06%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (531.00, 7.51%) and Mangalore Refinery And Petrochemicals Ltd. (51.50, 6.63%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Edelweiss Financial Services Ltd. (87.30, -9.86%), Godrej Industries Ltd. (379.75, -6.68%) and Piramal Enterprises Ltd. (1558.00, -6.64%).

Volume Shockers

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Indian Hotels Company Ltd. (154.85, 0.98%) and KPR Mill Ltd. (548.00, 0.40%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were Edelweiss Financial Services Ltd. (87.30, -9.86%), Godrej Industries Ltd. (379.75, -6.68%) and Triveni Turbine Ltd. (100.75, -3.59%).

Security and Intelligence Services (India) Ltd. (845.20, -1.93%) was trading at 3.8 times of weekly average. Sanofi India Ltd. (5815.00, -0.51%) and Crisil Ltd. (1325.00, -1.77%) were trading with volumes 3.5 and 3.3 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

4 stocks took off, crossing 52 week highs, while 31 stocks tanked below their 52 week lows.

Stocks touching their year highs included - Abbott India Ltd. (10974.00, 1.04%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (531.00, 7.51%) and ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Ltd. (468.10, 0.27%).

Stocks making new 52 weeks lows included - Andhra Bank (16.60, -0.60%) and Corporation Bank (14.45, -1.37%).

11 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Allcargo Logistics Ltd. (109.70, 5.84%) and Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd. (209.50, 1.45%). 29 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Tamil Nadu Newsprint And Papers Ltd. (192.65, -5.15%) and Birla Corporation Ltd. (539.00, -4.02%).