Nifty 50 closed at 11300.45 (-8.0, -0.1%) , BSE Sensex closed at 38310.49 (-59.1, -0.2%) while the broader Nifty 500 closed at 9307.85 (23.1, 0.3%)

Market breadth is in the green. Of the 1674 stocks traded today, 939 were in the positive territory and 656 were negative.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Bharat Forge Ltd. (503.40, 15.78%), Ashok Leyland Ltd. (61.10, 13.25%) and InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. (1163.70, 12.48%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. (881.30, -5.66%), Natco Pharma Ltd. (809.50, -4.63%) and Endurance Technologies Ltd. (956.45, -2.91%).

Volume Rockets

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included eClerx Services Ltd. (623.15, 20.00%), Venky's (India) Ltd. (1373.85, 20.00%) and Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (1317.05, 19.84%).

Top high volume loser on BSE was Bharti Airtel Ltd. (536.40, -2.06%).

KPR Mill Ltd. (558.00, 14.02%) was trading at 11.1 times of weekly average. Navneet Education Ltd. (80.50, 4.41%) and Galaxy Surfactants Ltd. (1882.60, 9.01%) were trading with volumes 11.1 and 8.7 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

9 stocks made 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - Balkrishna Industries Ltd. (1385.70, 0.54%), Gujarat Gas Ltd. (325.65, 1.46%) and HCL Technologies Ltd. (721.65, 0.63%).

31 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Venky's (India) Ltd. (1373.85, 20.00%) and KPR Mill Ltd. (558.00, 14.02%). 8 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Schneider Electric Infrastructure Ltd. (78.30, -3.69%) and Bajaj Consumer Care Ltd. (183.85, -2.52%).