Market closes flat on first trading day of the new year

Nifty 50 closed at 21741.90 (10.5, 0.1%) , BSE Sensex closed at 72271.94 (31.7, 0.0%) while the broader Nifty 500 closed at 19469.50 (40.4, 0.2%)

Market breadth is in the green. Of the 2053 stocks traded today, 1322 showed gains, and 684 showed losses.

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Vodafone Idea Ltd. (17.00, 6.25%), YES Bank Ltd. (22.65, 5.59%) and LIC Housing Finance Ltd. (563.05, 5.03%).

Largecap and midcap losers today include Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Company Ltd. (1225.35, -2.73%), Eicher Motors Ltd. (4038.35, -2.54%) and Bharti Airtel Ltd. (1013.05, -1.86%).

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Gujarat State Fertilizer & Chemicals Ltd. (273.75, 13.40%), JBM Auto Ltd. (1619.35, 10.60%) and Sun Pharma Advanced Research Company Ltd. (307.50, 7.22%).

Top high volume loser on BSE was Data Patterns (India) Ltd. (1840.90, -1.09%).

Century Textiles & Industries Ltd. (1280.00, 4.70%) was trading at 6.2 times of weekly average. Route Mobile Ltd. (1668.75, 4.39%) and Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd. (793.95, 5.47%) were trading with volumes 5.8 and 5.7 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

79 stocks hit their 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - Ajanta Pharma Ltd. (2136.00, 2.51%), Ambuja Cements Ltd. (534.30, 2.57%) and Bank of Baroda (233.75, 1.15%).

10 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Gujarat Gas Ltd. (484.00, 4.88%) and Aavas Financiers Ltd. (1561.20, 1.89%). 4 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Delhivery Ltd. (384.35, -1.26%) and Data Patterns (India) Ltd. (1840.90, -1.09%).