Upbeat trading today. Nifty 50 was trading at 10996.25 (94.6, 0.9%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 37366.45 (346.3, 0.9%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 8969.45 (0.83%).

Market breadth is in the green. Of the 1664 stocks traded today, 993 were gainers and 589 were losers.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd. (227.25, 9.31%), General Insurance Corporation of India (157.35, 7.00%) and Vodafone Idea Ltd. (9.50, 6.74%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (484.25, -3.84%), Lupin Ltd. (870.85, -2.96%) and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (417.50, -2.85%).

Movers and Shakers

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd. (227.25, 9.31%), Dixon Technologies (India) Ltd. (6926.90, 7.07%) and General Insurance Corporation of India (157.35, 7.00%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were Arvind Fashions Ltd. (123.55, -3.48%), TTK Prestige Ltd. (5590.00, -0.25%) and Vaibhav Global Ltd. (1329.35, -0.18%).

Blue Dart Express Ltd. (1975.00, 0.51%) was trading at 9.2 times of weekly average. Nilkamal Ltd. (1242.00, 5.14%) and The New India Assurance Company Ltd. (118.35, 6.72%) were trading with volumes 7.0 and 5.3 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

13 stocks overperformed with 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - Alembic Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (1023.00, 4.72%), Britannia Industries Ltd. (3947.15, 4.28%) and Cadila Healthcare Ltd. (375.90, -0.40%).

24 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Nilkamal Ltd. (1242.00, 5.14%) and Dalmia Bharat Ltd. (737.30, 4.28%). 7 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd. (662.00, -1.28%) and Hindalco Industries Ltd. (160.10, -1.26%).