Nifty 50 closed at 11471.55 (43.3, 0.4%) , BSE Sensex closed at 38598.99 (92.9, 0.2%) while the broader Nifty 500 closed at 9285.35 (31.5, 0.3%)

Market breadth is neutral. Of the 1657 stocks traded today, 763 were gainers and 803 were losers.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include General Insurance Corporation of India (260.60, 19.98%), Edelweiss Financial Services Ltd. (82.00, 8.18%) and Emami Ltd. (320.55, 6.04%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include PNB Housing Finance Ltd. (381.40, -12.66%), Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd. (168.45, -10.92%) and Indiabulls Ventures Ltd. (81.55, -9.99%).

Crowd Puller Stocks

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Bajaj Consumer Care Ltd. (244.35, 19.99%), GIC Housing Finance Ltd. (158.50, 19.98%) and General Insurance Corporation of India (260.60, 19.98%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were PNB Housing Finance Ltd. (381.40, -12.66%), ITD Cementation India Ltd. (36.10, -7.20%) and ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Ltd. (1204.45, -4.85%).

Schaeffler India Ltd. (4149.00, 0.49%) was trading at 42.3 times of weekly average. The New India Assurance Company Ltd. (113.85, 19.97%) and Inox Wind Ltd. (36.80, 16.46%) were trading with volumes 21.7 and 17.7 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

7 stocks overperformed with 52 week highs, while 26 stocks were underachievers and hit their 52 week lows.

Stocks touching their year highs included - Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. (1021.45, 0.57%), Nestle India Ltd. (14385.45, 2.12%) and Siemens Ltd. (1615.25, 1.46%).

Stocks making new 52 weeks lows included - Allahabad Bank (24.55, -1.41%) and BASF India Ltd. (950.25, 1.99%).

13 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including General Insurance Corporation of India (260.60, 19.98%) and Sunteck Realty Ltd. (438.75, 4.84%). 4 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Jindal Stainless Ltd. (33.35, -2.77%) and AIA Engineering Ltd. (1680.00, -2.02%).