Nifty 50 closed at 12103.00 (-66.9, -0.6%) , BSE Sensex closed at 41134.95 (-188.9, -0.5%) while the broader Nifty 500 closed at 9947.70 (-39.9, -0.4%)

Market breadth is in the red. Of the 1642 stocks traded today, 629 were gainers and 907 were losers.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (298.00, 4.89%), PNB Housing Finance Ltd. (572.00, 3.76%) and ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Ltd. (506.90, 3.65%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Vodafone Idea Ltd. (5.60, -5.88%), Oil India Ltd. (137.80, -5.55%) and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (116.30, -5.25%).

Volume Rockets

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Max India Ltd. (85.90, 7.64%), Prism Johnson Ltd. (71.85, 7.24%) and Intellect Design Arena Ltd. (171.05, 5.68%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were Tejas Networks Ltd. (82.65, -8.47%), Polycab India Ltd. (992.50, -8.34%) and NLC India Ltd. (57.15, -6.31%).

GE Power India Ltd. (680.00, -1.70%) was trading at 16.0 times of weekly average. Zensar Technologies Ltd. (195.00, 4.84%) and Gateway Distriparks Ltd. (133.20, -0.26%) were trading with volumes 11.3 and 8.1 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

25 stocks made 52 week highs, while 4 stocks were underachievers and hit their 52 week lows.

Stocks touching their year highs included - AIA Engineering Ltd. (1735.60, -3.03%), Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd. (1638.80, 0.77%) and Bharti Airtel Ltd. (514.75, 0.59%).

Stocks making new 52 weeks lows included - Havells India Ltd. (599.00, -2.91%) and Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (114.55, -0.22%).

14 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Cyient Ltd. (484.95, 5.36%) and Gujarat State Fertilizer & Chemicals Ltd. (87.30, 4.24%). 11 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including NLC India Ltd. (57.15, -6.31%) and Bank of Maharashtra (13.25, -4.33%).