Markets fell in today's trading. Nifty 50 closed at 13823.40 (-144.1, -1.0%) , BSE Sensex closed at 46874.36 (-535.6, -1.1%) while the broader Nifty 500 closed at 11446.25 (-100.1, -0.9%)

Market breadth is holding steady. Of the 1686 stocks traded today, 820 were gainers and 812 were losers.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Axis Bank Ltd. (671.45, 6.23%), Havells India Ltd. (1177.65, 5.52%) and Federal Bank Ltd. (71.80, 2.87%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Bank of Baroda (66.75, -9.86%), Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd. (152.30, -6.05%) and Varun Beverages Ltd. (860.00, -4.51%).

Volume Rockets

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Tata Metaliks Ltd. (752.90, 9.66%), VRL Logistics Ltd. (194.05, 7.48%) and Axis Bank Ltd. (671.45, 6.23%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were DCB Bank Ltd. (103.40, -5.09%), Shriram City Union Finance Ltd. (980.80, -1.99%) and Schaeffler India Ltd. (4275.00, -1.78%).

DB Corp Ltd. (80.50, 1.19%) was trading at 6.6 times of weekly average. Prism Johnson Ltd. (90.35, 0.39%) and Eris Lifesciences Ltd. (621.20, 1.72%) were trading with volumes 5.0 and 3.6 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

3 stocks made 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - Ceat Ltd. (1555.60, 4.28%), Havells India Ltd. (1177.65, 5.52%) and ABB India Ltd. (1350.35, -2.77%).

3 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (384.50, 1.02%) and Jai Corp Ltd. (85.95, 0.70%). 12 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Ipca Laboratories Ltd. (1894.00, -2.51%) and Bayer Cropscience Ltd. (5395.00, -2.34%).