Stock market update: Nifty Auto index advances 0.84% in an upbeat market

NEW DELHI: The Nifty Auto index traded positive around 11:15AM(IST)on Monday in an upbeat market.

Sona BLW Precision Forgings(up 2.81 per cent), Mahindra & Mahindra(up 1.9 per cent), TVS Motor Company(up 1.63 per cent), Bajaj Auto(up 1.48 per cent) and Eicher Motors(up 1.47 per cent) were among the top gainers.

Tata Motors(down 0.79 per cent), Bosch(down 0.31 per cent), TIINDIA(down 0.21 per cent) and Samvardhana Motherson International(down 0.07 per cent) were the top losers on the index.

The Nifty Auto index was up 0.84 per cent at 12882.6 at the time of writing this report.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 71.45 points at 18340.45, while the BSE Sensex was up 254.33 points at 61592.14.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 5 were trading in the green, while 44 were in the red.

Shares of Suzlon Energy, YES Bank, UCO Bank, IOB and Shree Ren Sug were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of Rajshree Sugars, Sakthi Sugars, Kothari Sugars, Ponni Sugars and GIC hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Inox Green Energy Services Ltd., Cerebra Integrat, Sintex Inds., Himatsingk Seid and ICDS Ltd. hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.