Nifty 50 closed at 12923.70 (64.7, 0.5%) , BSE Sensex closed at 44077.15 (194.9, 0.4%) while the broader Nifty 500 closed at 10631.50 (71.0, 0.7%)
Market breadth is in the green. Of the 1712 stocks traded today, 990 were on the uptick, and 634 were down.
Riding High:
Largecap and midcap gainers today include Future Retail Ltd. (79.25, 9.99%), IDFC First Bank Ltd. (36.75, 9.38%) and Bajaj Holdings & Investment Ltd. (3245.05, 7.85%).
Downers:
Largecap and midcap losers today include ABB India Ltd. (1064.95, -4.58%), Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd. (2252.00, -3.55%) and Petronet LNG Ltd. (251.90, -2.72%).
Crowd Puller Stocks
27 stocks in BSE 500 are trading on high volumes today.
Top high volume gainers on BSE included Jammu & Kashmir Bank Ltd. (24.60, 20.00%), Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Ltd. (40.40, 19.88%) and Ujjivan Financial Services Ltd. (289.85, 16.88%).
Top high volume losers on BSE were Tata Communications Ltd. (1005.00, -2.87%), EPL Ltd. (259.95, -1.91%) and Natco Pharma Ltd. (907.10, -0.57%).
Aavas Financiers Ltd. (1524.00, 2.06%) was trading at 10.8 times of weekly average. Indoco Remedies Ltd. (274.65, 6.68%) and Sun Pharma Advanced Research Company Ltd. (173.20, 4.75%) were trading with volumes 7.8 and 6.0 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.
BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages
42 stocks took off, crossing 52 week highs,
Stocks touching their year highs included - ACC Ltd. (1716.05, 1.73%), Amara Raja Batteries Ltd. (874.25, 1.89%) and Balkrishna Industries Ltd. (1673.15, 3.76%).
15 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Equitas Holdings Ltd. (63.40, 19.96%) and Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Ltd. (40.40, 19.88%). 3 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including JK Paper Ltd. (95.75, -3.23%) and Bank of India (43.40, -1.25%).
