Nifty 50 closed at 11965.90 (55.8, 0.5%) , BSE Sensex closed at 40581.71 (169.1, 0.4%) while the broader Nifty 500 closed at 9689.10 (52.9, 0.6%)

Market breadth is in the green. Of the 1660 stocks traded today, 935 were gainers and 634 were losers.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd. (292.50, 9.00%), IDBI Bank Ltd. (36.65, 8.27%) and Tata Motors Ltd. (172.95, 6.89%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. (139.05, -3.74%), Infosys Ltd. (702.50, -2.57%) and 3M India Ltd. (20711.00, -2.04%).

Crowd Puller Stocks

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Sterlite Technologies Ltd. (119.10, 11.05%), Timken India Ltd. (879.75, 8.75%) and Redington (India) Ltd. (114.10, 5.06%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were Ujjivan Financial Services Ltd. (329.20, -3.30%), PI Industries Ltd. (1460.00, -1.77%) and Ipca Laboratories Ltd. (1125.00, -1.49%).

Triveni Turbine Ltd. (92.75, -1.33%) was trading at 65.2 times of weekly average. Grindwell Norton Ltd. (570.95, 0.04%) and Gateway Distriparks Ltd. (95.75, -0.98%) were trading with volumes 17.6 and 8.0 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

8 stocks took off, crossing 52 week highs, while 12 stocks were underachievers and hit their 52 week lows.

Stocks touching their year highs included - Crisil Ltd. (1710.00, 2.68%), Divi's Laboratories Ltd. (1826.00, 0.23%) and DLF Ltd. (224.70, 0.60%).

Stocks making new 52 weeks lows included - Allahabad Bank (19.10, -0.78%) and Caplin Point Laboratories Ltd. (296.00, 2.69%).

13 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including IDBI Bank Ltd. (36.65, 8.27%) and ITI Ltd. (89.80, 6.59%). 5 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. (139.05, -3.74%) and KEI Industries Ltd. (459.10, -3.56%).