Stock market update: Nifty Auto index advances 0.17% in a weak market

NEW DELHI: The Nifty Auto index traded positive around 11:13AM(IST)on Tuesday in a weak market.

Tata Motors Ltd.(up 1.8 per cent), Tube Investments of India Ltd.(up 1.13 per cent), Bosch Ltd.(up 0.54 per cent), TVS Motor Company Ltd.(up 0.46 per cent) and Exide Industries Ltd.(up 0.35 per cent) were among the top gainers.

Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd.(down 1.04 per cent), MRF Ltd.(down 0.87 per cent), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.(down 0.53 per cent), Bajaj Auto Ltd.(down 0.42 per cent) and Bharat Forge Ltd.(down 0.16 per cent) were the top losers on the index.

The Nifty Auto index was up 0.17 per cent at 23818.0 at the time of writing this report.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 22.05 points at 25125.25, while the BSE Sensex was down 3.04 points at 82442.17.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 30 were trading in the green, while 20 were in the red.

Shares of Reliance Power, Vodafone Idea, Suzlon Energy, JP Power and YES Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of Laxmi Goldorna House, Hybrid Financial Services, Creative Eye, Vesuvius India and Reliance Power hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while BSL Ltd, Shree Ram Proteins, Digjam, Lakshmi Precis and Lasa Supergenerics hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.