Gloom in markets in today's trading. Nifty 50 closed at 15640.25 (-99.9, -0.6%) , BSE Sensex closed at 51941.64 (-333.9, -0.6%) while the broader Nifty 500 closed at 13404.95 (-91.6, -0.7%)

Market breadth is in the red. Of the 1752 stocks traded today, 621 were gainers and 1106 were losers.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Tata Power Company Ltd. (124.65, 6.49%), REC Ltd. (164.00, 6.05%) and Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Ltd. (429.00, 5.52%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Petronet LNG Ltd. (228.55, -7.90%), Indian Overseas Bank (20.55, -5.95%) and The New India Assurance Company Ltd. (167.05, -4.24%).

Volume Rockets

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Responsive Industries Ltd. (156.50, 6.57%), Tata Power Company Ltd. (124.65, 6.49%) and REC Ltd. (164.00, 6.05%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were Petronet LNG Ltd. (228.55, -7.90%), DB Corp Ltd. (108.40, -7.51%) and VRL Logistics Ltd. (257.65, -3.68%).

TeamLease Services Ltd. (3637.20, 5.11%) was trading at 39.5 times of weekly average. Dhanuka Agritech Ltd. (929.80, -1.07%) and Allcargo Logistics Ltd. (137.10, 0.55%) were trading with volumes 27.5 and 12.8 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

69 stocks made 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. (852.55, -2.48%), Adani Power Ltd. (152.35, 0.40%) and Astral Ltd. (1949.00, 1.05%).

3 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Responsive Industries Ltd. (156.50, 6.57%) and Force Motors Ltd. (1196.30, -0.89%). 11 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Petronet LNG Ltd. (228.55, -7.90%) and Vodafone Idea Ltd. (9.66, -3.88%).