Nifty 50 was trading at 15664.60 (-25.8, -0.2%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 52102.68 (-129.8, -0.3%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 13384.80 (4.3, 0.0%)

Market breadth is in the green. Of the 1733 stocks traded today, 980 showed gains, and 718 showed losses.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Indian Overseas Bank (19.35, 10.57%), United Breweries Ltd. (1352.85, 6.75%) and Adani Enterprises Ltd. (1687.45, 6.59%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include RBL Bank Ltd. (212.65, -2.83%), Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Ltd. (400.65, -2.28%) and Nestle India Ltd. (17427.75, -2.09%).

Volume Rockets

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Spandana Sphoorty Financial Ltd. (800.00, 16.80%), Bank of Maharashtra (29.10, 13.23%) and Indian Overseas Bank (19.35, 10.57%).

Top high volume loser on BSE was JK Cement Ltd. (2840.15, -0.13%).

Castrol India Ltd. (141.85, 5.90%) was trading at 10.9 times of weekly average. United Breweries Ltd. (1352.85, 6.75%) and Sheela Foam Ltd. (2213.40, 8.56%) were trading with volumes 9.4 and 9.3 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

43 stocks took off, crossing 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - Ambuja Cements Ltd. (333.10, -0.25%), Bajaj Finance Ltd. (5965.60, 1.09%) and Bajaj Finserv Ltd. (11950.00, 1.10%).

9 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Spandana Sphoorty Financial Ltd. (800.00, 16.80%) and Future Consumer Ltd. (8.19, 5.00%). 2 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including EPL Ltd. (246.60, -1.52%) and Ipca Laboratories Ltd. (2063.80, -1.17%).