Indian markets slumped today. Nifty 50 closed at 14564.95 (-249.8, -1.7%) , BSE Sensex closed at 49180.31 (-871.1, -1.7%) while the broader Nifty 500 closed at 12209.30 (-208, -1.7%)

Market breadth is overwhelmingly negative. Of the 1714 stocks traded today, 371 were on the uptick, and 1280 were down.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Gujarat State Petronet Ltd. (269.65, 3.75%), Adani Total Gas Ltd. (927.00, 3.56%) and Adani Power Ltd. (105.00, 3.35%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Bank of India (71.20, -5.32%), Astral Poly Technik Ltd. (1584.00, -5.01%) and Aditya Birla Capital Ltd. (116.65, -4.93%).

Crowd Puller Stocks

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Bank of Maharashtra (21.95, 4.77%), KPIT Technologies Ltd. (171.80, 3.31%) and Birla Corporation Ltd. (875.90, 3.12%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd. (27.65, -9.20%), Indoco Remedies Ltd. (281.00, -4.50%) and Omaxe Ltd. (69.10, -1.07%).

Aarti Industries Ltd. (1324.90, 2.81%) was trading at 13.8 times of weekly average. Relaxo Footwears Ltd. (873.00, 0.30%) and Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Ltd. (216.65, 0.39%) were trading with volumes 5.4 and 3.9 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

16 stocks made 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - 3M India Ltd. (28102.00, 0.32%), Adani Power Ltd. (105.00, 3.35%) and Adani Transmission Ltd. (871.10, 2.78%).

2 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. (856.80, 1.26%) and Thyrocare Technologies Ltd. (868.00, 0.20%). 8 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Vodafone Idea Ltd. (9.75, -3.47%) and IRB Infrastructure Developers Ltd. (106.75, -3.13%).