NEW DELHI: The Nifty Auto index was trading 1.12 per cent down at 9,173.55 around 10:21 am on Monday with most of its components trading in the red.
Shares of Tata Motors (down 3.07 per cent), Tata Motors (DVR) (down 2.56 per cent), Apollo Tyres (down 1.92 per cent), Hero MotoCorp (down 1.68 per cent), Ashok Leyland (down 1.52 per cent) were among the top losers in the index.
Eicher Motors (down 1.40 per cent), Maruti Suzuki India (down 1.19 per cent) and TVS Motor Company (down 1.16 per cent) too were among the top laggards.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 7.65 points at 10,577.55 while BSE Sensex was down 42.1 points at 35,116.45 at that time.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 18 were trading in the green, while 32 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, SBI, Tata Motors, Titan Company, Ashok Leyland, ICICI Bank, Bank of Baroda, NHPC, Vedanta, Idea Cellular, Indian Oil Corp, Cipla, HPCL, SAIL, Hindalco Inds. and Axis Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.