Nifty 50 closed at 11913.20 (56.4, 0.5%) , BSE Sensex closed at 40412.57 (172.7, 0.4%) while the broader Nifty 500 closed at 9638.45 (43.1, 0.5%)
Market breadth is in the red. Of the 1642 stocks traded today, 588 showed gains, and 969 showed losses.
Riding High:
Largecap and midcap gainers today include GAIL (India) Ltd. (117.30, 5.63%), HDFC Asset Management Company Ltd. (3026.85, 4.73%) and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (283.45, 4.61%).
Downers:
Largecap and midcap losers today include YES Bank Ltd. (42.80, -15.33%), Gujarat State Petronet Ltd. (208.35, -3.99%) and Godrej Industries Ltd. (409.50, -3.39%).
Volume Rockets
26 stocks in BSE 500 are trading on high volumes today.
Top high volume gainers on BSE included IFB Industries Ltd. (646.80, 7.81%), Ipca Laboratories Ltd. (1142.05, 7.32%) and Ashoka Buildcon Ltd. (94.60, 4.59%).
Top high volume losers on BSE were Sterlite Technologies Ltd. (107.40, -7.25%), TV Today Network Ltd. (233.95, -6.23%) and TCNS Clothing Co. Ltd. (647.00, -2.74%).
Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning India Ltd. (1900.75, -1.68%) was trading at 17.6 times of weekly average. Vardhman Textiles Ltd. (905.05, 0.55%) and Suprajit Engineering Ltd. (177.00, -0.23%) were trading with volumes 9.2 and 8.6 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.
BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages
5 stocks made 52 week highs, while 32 stocks tanked below their 52 week lows.
Stocks touching their year highs included - Adani Transmission Ltd. (342.00, 1.57%), Divi's Laboratories Ltd. (1821.80, 0.45%) and DLF Ltd. (223.35, 3.02%).
Stocks making new 52 weeks lows included - Allahabad Bank (19.25, -5.87%) and Caplin Point Laboratories Ltd. (288.25, -3.77%).
8 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Aditya Birla Capital Ltd. (95.80, 4.19%) and Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. (670.55, 3.75%). 9 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including General Insurance Corporation of India (230.60, -2.97%) and Oberoi Realty Ltd. (508.30, -2.95%).
