Nifty 50 closed at 21571.80 (-50.6, -0.2%) , BSE Sensex closed at 71423.65 (-259.6, -0.4%) while the broader Nifty 500 closed at 19601.90 (-4.5, 0.0%)

Market breadth is holding steady. Of the 2025 stocks traded today, 1029 were on the uptick, and 960 were down.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include IDBI Bank Ltd. (79.10, 13.57%), Indian Railway Finance Corporation Ltd. (176.25, 9.98%) and NHPC Ltd. (80.50, 9.45%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (2468.90, -3.76%), PB Fintech Ltd. (868.00, -3.23%) and Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd. (6700.50, -2.57%).

Movers and Shakers

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Rites Ltd. (629.00, 13.65%), IDBI Bank Ltd. (79.10, 13.57%) and HFCL Ltd. (99.70, 12.59%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were Can Fin Homes Ltd. (768.35, -3.25%) and JK Cement Ltd. (3992.05, -1.51%).

SIS Ltd. (516.00, 8.41%) was trading at 18.9 times of weekly average. Rain Industries Ltd. (164.20, 9.21%) and Ceat Ltd. (2914.00, 12.30%) were trading with volumes 9.3 and 7.1 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

78 stocks made 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd. (6122.55, 0.46%), Apollo Tyres Ltd. (524.95, 4.27%) and Bajaj Holdings & Investment Ltd. (8261.55, -2.49%).

9 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Rain Industries Ltd. (164.20, 9.21%) and Rossari Biotech Ltd. (819.35, 3.93%). 5 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Data Patterns (India) Ltd. (1882.50, -2.10%) and V-Mart Retail Ltd. (2036.50, -1.55%).