The market closed on an upbeat note. Nifty 50 closed at 15576.00 (140.4, 0.9%) , BSE Sensex closed at 51937.44 (514.6, 1%) while the broader Nifty 500 closed at 13224.10 (107.1, 0.8%)

Market breadth is in the green. Of the 1791 stocks traded today, 939 were on the uptick, and 817 were down.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Nippon Life India Asset Management Ltd. (370.60, 6.30%), Steel Authority of India (SAIL) Ltd. (127.40, 5.38%) and Gujarat Gas Ltd. (538.00, 5.35%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (809.00, -4.36%), Bank of Baroda (80.65, -3.82%) and Gujarat State Petronet Ltd. (271.20, -2.64%).

Crowd Puller Stocks

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included PNB Housing Finance Ltd. (525.20, 19.89%), Redington (India) Ltd. (262.85, 19.61%) and Minda Corporation Ltd. (127.00, 11.80%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. (1002.00, -1.98%), Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. (699.05, -1.71%) and Aavas Financiers Ltd. (2275.00, -1.35%).

Solar Industries India Ltd. (1545.20, 10.00%) was trading at 15.0 times of weekly average. Nippon Life India Asset Management Ltd. (370.60, 6.30%) and Vakrangee Ltd. (42.25, 4.19%) were trading with volumes 12.5 and 12.1 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

19 stocks made 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - Asian Paints Ltd. (2975.05, 1.17%), Avanti Feeds Ltd. (598.00, 3.66%) and Container Corporation of India Ltd. (680.95, 1.99%).

7 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including IRB Infrastructure Developers Ltd. (113.45, 6.78%) and IOL Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (703.00, 5.40%). 7 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Force Motors Ltd. (1192.00, -4.41%) and Strides Pharma Science Ltd. (768.00, -3.38%).