Markets fell in afternoon trading. Nifty 50 was trading at 10581.00 (-221.7, -2.1%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 35927.22 (-766.5, -2.1%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 8668.20 (-166, -1.9%)

Market breadth is moving down. Of the 1630 stocks traded today, 266 were gainers and 1327 were losers.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Future Retail Ltd. (116.60, 5.00%), Biocon Ltd. (433.70, 4.54%) and Indraprastha Gas Ltd. (413.65, 1.92%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include RBL Bank Ltd. (163.50, -8.09%), Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (39.30, -7.75%) and L&T Finance Holdings Ltd. (63.65, -6.74%).

Volume Shockers

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd. (36.95, 6.33%), Rallis India Ltd. (285.35, 5.45%) and Gujarat Fluorochemicals Ltd. (363.00, 5.28%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were Blue Star Ltd. (466.65, -2.82%), GE T&D India Ltd. (79.00, -1.62%) and Thyrocare Technologies Ltd. (577.10, -1.57%).

BASF India Ltd. (1342.00, 1.22%) was trading at 4.7 times of weekly average. TCI Express Ltd. (650.80, 1.18%) was trading with volume 3.4 times weekly average on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

7 stocks made 52 week highs, while 1 stock hit their 52 week lows.

Stocks touching their year highs included - BASF India Ltd. (1342.00, 1.22%), Rallis India Ltd. (285.35, 5.45%) and Dr. Lal Pathlabs Ltd. (1892.50, 0.01%).

Stock making new 52 weeks lows included - Omaxe Ltd. (72.10, -4.94%).

10 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including L&T Technology Services Ltd. (1438.00, -0.07%) and Heidelberg Cement India Ltd. (177.00, -0.28%). 27 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd. (223.40, -6.29%) and Tata Power Company Ltd. (47.15, -5.04%).