Nifty 50 was trading at 12126.15 (25.5, 0.2%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 41100.47 (79.9, 0.2%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 9848.70 (32.8, 0.3%)

Market breadth is holding steady. Of the 1636 stocks traded today, 795 were on the uptrend, and 744 went down.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd. (311.10, 16.02%), Vodafone Idea Ltd. (6.50, 10.17%) and Bharti Infratel Ltd. (248.00, 10.08%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (312.90, -2.07%), Bosch Ltd. (16335.00, -1.69%) and Dalmia Bharat Ltd. (870.05, -1.38%).

Crowd Puller Stocks

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included IIFL Finance Ltd. (175.30, 15.40%), Corporation Bank (25.10, 9.13%) and Jammu & Kashmir Bank Ltd. (33.05, 4.75%).

Top high volume loser on BSE was SKF India Ltd. (2137.45, -0.18%).

Sudarshan Chemical Industries Ltd. (400.95, 1.07%) was trading at 7.8 times of weekly average. Repco Home Finance Ltd. (299.00, 2.33%) and Gujarat Pipavav Port Ltd. (87.25, 0.23%) were trading with volumes 5.5 and 4.6 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

10 stocks made 52 week highs, while 2 stocks hit their 52 week lows.

Stocks touching their year highs included - Bajaj Finserv Ltd. (9249.80, 0.23%), Divi's Laboratories Ltd. (1793.25, -1.00%) and GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (1699.95, 1.60%).

Stocks making new 52 weeks lows included - Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (126.90, -1.05%) and Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd. (10.40, -0.48%).

16 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Corporation Bank (25.10, 9.13%) and JSW Steel Ltd. (262.10, 3.62%). 1 stock slipped below their 200 SMA including Greaves Cotton Ltd. (134.90, -0.99%).