Gloom in markets in mid day trading. Nifty 50 was trading at 11108.85 (-106.6, -1.0%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 37858.92 (-281.6, -0.7%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 9029.20 (-84.9, -0.9%)

Market breadth is sharply down. Of the 1637 stocks traded today, 464 were on the uptick, and 1102 were down.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include MphasiS Ltd. (1093.80, 11.66%), Syngene International Ltd. (460.00, 5.05%) and Au Small Finance Bank Ltd. (791.80, 5.00%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd. (140.95, -5.15%), Future Retail Ltd. (95.45, -4.98%) and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (151.60, -4.62%).

Volume Rockets

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included MphasiS Ltd. (1093.80, 11.66%), PNC Infratech Ltd. (148.95, 6.28%) and Deepak Nitrite Ltd. (578.55, 4.98%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were TCNS Clothing Co. Ltd. (339.40, -3.00%) and Intellect Design Arena Ltd. (150.70, -2.87%).

Kajaria Ceramics Ltd. (408.75, 3.35%) was trading at 8.6 times of weekly average. Aarti Industries Ltd. (954.45, 3.55%) and Essel Propack Ltd. (210.50, 4.29%) were trading with volumes 5.4 and 5.1 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

11 stocks hit their 52 week highs, while 1 stock tanked below their 52 week lows.

Stocks touching their year highs included - Granules India Ltd. (292.45, 4.20%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (661.70, 1.36%) and JK Cement Ltd. (1520.55, -0.99%).

Stock making new 52 weeks lows included - Omaxe Ltd. (65.70, 4.95%).

13 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Edelweiss Financial Services Ltd. (81.00, 3.65%) and Zensar Technologies Ltd. (144.15, 2.71%). 18 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Petronet LNG Ltd. (241.00, -4.29%) and GHCL Ltd. (154.60, -3.86%).