Maruti Suzuki(up 1.48 per cent), TVS Motor Company(up 1.01 per cent), Bajaj Auto(up 0.16 per cent), Mahindra & Mahindra(up 0.12 per cent) and Ashok Leyland(up 0.04 per cent) were among the top gainers.
TIINDIA(down 2.41 per cent), Tata Motors(down 2.21 per cent), Eicher Motors(down 1.58 per cent), Bharat Forge(down 1.54 per cent) and Exide Industries(down 1.19 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Auto index was down 0.41 per cent at 11348.3 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 186.75 points at 18024.2, while the BSE Sensex was down 581.44 points at 60561.89.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 12 were trading in the green, while 38 were in the red.
Shares of PNB, Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Tata Power and Bank of Baroda were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of SMS Lifesciences Ind, Gokul Agro Resources, Consol Const., IndusInd Bank and Goldstone Tech hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Bombay Metrics Supply Chain Ltd., Ramco Systems, D K Enterprises Global Ltd., SREI Infra Fin and Anmol India hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.
