Nifty 50 closed at 11317.35 (-37.7, -0.3%) , BSE Sensex closed at 38365.35 (-51.9, -0.1%) while the broader Nifty 500 closed at 9329.85 (-49.3, -0.5%)

Market breadth is highly negative. Of the 1671 stocks traded today, 451 were on the uptick, and 1147 were down.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Ltd. (442.20, 4.08%), Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd. (201.65, 3.44%) and Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd. (2488.35, 3.25%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Vodafone Idea Ltd. (11.30, -8.13%), Bharti Infratel Ltd. (213.00, -7.79%) and Tata Motors Limited (DVR) (58.25, -5.82%).

Movers and Shakers

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Dixon Technologies (India) Ltd. (9604.70, 7.67%), Birlasoft Ltd. (173.80, 6.56%) and Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning India Ltd. (2239.15, 5.51%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were Bharat Dynamics Ltd. (331.00, -13.90%), AstraZeneca Pharma India Ltd. (4231.05, -7.07%) and Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation Ltd. (1379.45, -2.50%).

Indoco Remedies Ltd. (219.25, 1.58%) was trading at 7.2 times of weekly average. Redington (India) Ltd. (115.05, 0.83%) and Heidelberg Cement India Ltd. (185.25, 0.00%) were trading with volumes 7.1 and 6.9 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

13 stocks took off, crossing 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - Astral Poly Technik Ltd. (1265.75, 2.15%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (725.90, 2.41%) and Pfizer Ltd. (4955.05, -1.60%).

15 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning India Ltd. (2239.15, 5.51%) and V Mart Retail Ltd. (1873.50, 5.18%). 23 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Parag Milk Foods Ltd. (97.50, -9.43%) and Brigade Enterprises Ltd. (164.90, -5.77%).