Nifty 50 closed at 15670.65 (-19.7, -0.1%) , BSE Sensex closed at 52100.05 (-132.4, -0.3%) while the broader Nifty 500 closed at 13394.15 (13.7, 0.1%)

Market breadth is in the green. Of the 1756 stocks traded today, 993 were on the uptrend, and 724 went down.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Indian Overseas Bank (19.25, 10.00%), Bharat Forge Ltd. (749.50, 7.70%) and Adani Enterprises Ltd. (1701.20, 7.46%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include ABB India Ltd. (1645.00, -2.77%), Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Ltd. (400.75, -2.26%) and Emami Ltd. (537.20, -2.08%).

Volume Shockers

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd. (261.40, 14.25%), Bank of Maharashtra (29.00, 12.84%) and Indian Overseas Bank (19.25, 10.00%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were Nestle India Ltd. (17457.95, -1.92%), APL Apollo Tubes Ltd. (1313.50, -1.56%) and JK Cement Ltd. (2840.15, -0.13%).

Spandana Sphoorty Financial Ltd. (743.60, 8.56%) was trading at 14.5 times of weekly average. Castrol India Ltd. (141.10, 5.34%) and United Breweries Ltd. (1340.00, 5.74%) were trading with volumes 13.3 and 11.3 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

43 stocks hit their 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - Ambuja Cements Ltd. (332.35, -0.48%), Bajaj Finance Ltd. (5993.55, 1.56%) and Bank of Maharashtra (29.00, 12.84%).

10 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Spandana Sphoorty Financial Ltd. (743.60, 8.56%) and Future Consumer Ltd. (8.34, 6.92%). 4 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including EPL Ltd. (245.30, -2.04%) and Ipca Laboratories Ltd. (2060.00, -1.35%).