Nifty 50 was trading at 11860.20 (3.4, 0.0%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 40296.14 (56.3, 0.1%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 9594.05 (-1.4, -0.0%)

Market breadth is in the red. Of the 1614 stocks traded today, 523 were gainers and 984 were losers.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include GAIL (India) Ltd. (117.10, 5.45%), Vodafone Idea Ltd. (6.85, 4.58%) and Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. (673.05, 4.14%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include YES Bank Ltd. (42.75, -15.43%), Indian Hotels Company Ltd. (141.35, -3.61%) and General Insurance Corporation of India (229.45, -3.45%).

Volume Rockets

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Mahindra CIE Automotive Ltd. (157.60, 4.27%), Aavas Financiers Ltd. (1832.90, 2.06%) and Galaxy Surfactants Ltd. (1377.05, 0.22%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were Chalet Hotels Ltd. (320.60, -2.76%), NLC India Ltd. (53.20, -1.21%) and Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning India Ltd. (1910.00, -1.20%).

Vardhman Textiles Ltd. (901.15, 0.12%) was trading at 9.1 times of weekly average. S H Kelkar & Company Ltd. (103.05, -0.34%) and SKF India Ltd. (2139.00, -0.42%) were trading with volumes 3.2 and 3.1 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

2 stocks hit their 52 week highs, while 28 stocks tanked below their 52 week lows.

Stocks touching their year highs included - Adani Transmission Ltd. (337.75, 0.31%) and Divi's Laboratories Ltd. (1821.95, 0.46%).

Stocks making new 52 weeks lows included - Allahabad Bank (19.50, -4.65%) and CCL Products India Ltd. (187.00, -2.50%).

6 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. (673.05, 4.14%) and Aditya Birla Capital Ltd. (94.95, 3.26%). 9 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including General Insurance Corporation of India (229.45, -3.45%) and Bharat Electronics Ltd. (97.30, -2.41%).