Stock market update: Nifty Auto index advances 0.18% in an upbeat market

NEW DELHI: The Nifty Auto index traded positive around 10:09AM(IST)on Thursday in an upbeat market.

TIINDIA(up 1.98 per cent), Balkrishna Industries(up 1.78 per cent), Hero MotoCorp(up 0.84 per cent), MRF(up 0.5 per cent) and Exide Industries(up 0.45 per cent) were among the top gainers.

Eicher Motors(down 0.58 per cent), Amara Raja Batteries(down 0.34 per cent), Tata Motors(down 0.33 per cent) and Maruti Suzuki(down 0.24 per cent) were the top losers on the index.

The Nifty Auto index was up 0.18 per cent at 10482.2 at the time of writing this report.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 3.0 points at 17248.65, while the BSE Sensex was up 8.08 points at 57692.9.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 34 were trading in the green, while 15 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, Zee Ent., L&T Fin Holding, IDFC First Bank and SAIL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of Krishana Phoschem, Madhya Bharat Agro, SEL Manufact, SecUR Credentials and NDTV hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Gateway Distriparks Ltd., Akash Infra-Proj, GMR Power and Urban Infra Ltd., Ganga Forging and SP Refractories Ltd. hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.