Nifty 50 was trading at 11896.70 (-40.8, -0.3%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 40344.72 (-142.7, -0.4%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 9635.35 (-36.1, -0.4%)
Market breadth is in the red. Of the 1618 stocks traded today, 510 were in the positive territory and 1013 were negative.
Riding High:
Largecap and midcap gainers today include Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd. (273.70, 5.70%), Indiabulls Ventures Ltd. (155.90, 4.98%) and Vodafone Idea Ltd. (6.70, 3.08%).
Downers:
Largecap and midcap losers today include Oberoi Realty Ltd. (525.65, -4.65%), Bharat Electronics Ltd. (97.95, -4.44%) and YES Bank Ltd. (53.90, -4.18%).
Volume Rockets
11 stocks in BSE 500 are trading on high volumes today.
Top high volume gainers on BSE included The New India Assurance Company Ltd. (141.10, 6.89%), J B Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (426.00, 6.05%) and eClerx Services Ltd. (504.10, 5.91%).
Top high volume losers on BSE were Jyothy Labs Ltd. (152.50, -3.60%), Honeywell Automation India Ltd. (25699.00, -1.73%) and 3M India Ltd. (21400.00, -1.07%).
Atul Ltd. (4148.95, 0.72%) was trading at 5.5 times of weekly average. Thermax Ltd. (997.65, 1.68%) and La Opala RG Ltd. (138.55, 2.06%) were trading with volumes 5.4 and 4.6 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.
BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages
3 stocks took off, crossing 52 week highs, while 9 stocks were underachievers and hit their 52 week lows.
Stocks touching their year highs included - J B Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (426.00, 6.05%), Aavas Financiers Ltd. (1821.80, 1.05%) and Mas Financial Services Ltd. (814.00, 3.72%).
Stocks making new 52 weeks lows included - Allahabad Bank (20.80, -3.48%) and Firstsource Solutions Ltd. (38.20, -2.18%).
7 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Sun Pharma Advanced Research Company Ltd. (170.30, 4.80%) and Bliss GVS Pharma Ltd. (160.35, 3.35%). 12 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Oberoi Realty Ltd. (525.65, -4.65%) and Bharat Electronics Ltd. (97.95, -4.44%).
