Indian markets slumped today. Nifty 50 closed at 12693.00 (-56.2, -0.4%) , BSE Sensex closed at 43357.19 (-236.5, -0.5%) while the broader Nifty 500 closed at 10344.85 (-11.7, -0.1%)

Market breadth is in the green. Of the 1687 stocks traded today, 969 were on the uptrend, and 626 went down.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd. (171.05, 7.28%), Astral Poly Technik Ltd. (1286.95, 5.16%) and Adani Green Energy Ltd. (942.35, 4.99%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd. (2110.45, -3.87%), Bank of Baroda (45.65, -3.28%) and State Bank of India (226.80, -3.16%).

Crowd Puller Stocks

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd. (55.10, 14.08%), S H Kelkar & Company Ltd. (105.35, 14.08%) and Aster DM Healthcare Ltd. (155.55, 10.59%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were Star Cement Ltd. (84.20, -3.33%), Gujarat Fluorochemicals Ltd. (494.75, -2.35%) and EPL Ltd. (251.95, -1.41%).

AIA Engineering Ltd. (1738.95, 0.91%) was trading at 15.7 times of weekly average. V-Guard Industries Ltd. (167.85, 0.03%) and AstraZeneca Pharma India Ltd. (4317.35, 2.85%) were trading with volumes 12.8 and 11.5 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

18 stocks made 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - Amara Raja Batteries Ltd. (834.95, 1.08%), Bajaj Electricals Ltd. (549.35, 6.10%) and Balkrishna Industries Ltd. (1570.85, 3.76%).

26 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Ashoka Buildcon Ltd. (69.25, 6.46%) and Suzlon Energy Ltd. (3.30, 4.76%). 6 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation Ltd. (42.35, -3.20%) and Bosch Ltd. (11895.20, -2.81%).