The market closed on an upbeat note. Nifty 50 closed at 14589.40 (84.6, 0.6%) , BSE Sensex closed at 48803.68 (259.6, 0.5%) while the broader Nifty 500 closed at 12240.65 (54.0, 0.4%)

Market breadth is in the red. Of the 1730 stocks traded today, 647 were gainers and 1037 were losers.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Adani Total Gas Ltd. (1113.90, 7.22%), Astral Poly Technik Ltd. (1521.70, 5.61%) and Adani Transmission Ltd. (944.60, 5.04%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Indian Overseas Bank (16.85, -6.39%), The Ramco Cements Ltd. (1007.80, -4.64%) and Indian Hotels Company Ltd. (100.25, -4.39%).

Crowd Puller Stocks

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Balrampur Chini Mills Ltd. (260.45, 9.62%), Century Plyboards (India) Ltd. (332.25, 9.56%) and Astral Poly Technik Ltd. (1521.70, 5.61%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were Varroc Engineering Ltd. (339.00, -4.92%), Tube Investments of India Ltd. (1099.50, -3.25%) and CreditAccess Grameen Ltd. (567.35, -2.91%).

Linde India Ltd. (1860.05, 4.94%) was trading at 5.5 times of weekly average. ABB India Ltd. (1338.00, 1.39%) and V Mart Retail Ltd. (2898.50, 4.38%) were trading with volumes 5.2 and 4.7 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

10 stocks overperformed with 52 week highs, while 1 stock hit their 52 week lows.

Stocks touching their year highs included - Bajaj Consumer Care Ltd. (294.00, 2.91%), Century Plyboards (India) Ltd. (332.25, 9.56%) and Dabur India Ltd. (572.85, 2.25%).

Stock making new 52 weeks lows included - Godfrey Phillips India Ltd. (875.95, -0.84%).

12 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including CESC Ltd. (614.40, 3.99%) and Kaveri Seed Company Ltd. (560.00, 3.38%). 15 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Sunteck Realty Ltd. (280.75, -3.37%) and IDBI Bank Ltd. (35.85, -3.24%).