Stock market update: Nifty Auto index advances 1.27% in a weak market

NEW DELHI: The Nifty Auto index traded positive around 10:45AM(IST)on Friday in a weak market.

Tata Motors(up 7.16 per cent), Bajaj Auto(up 6.93 per cent), TVS Motor Company(up 2.98 per cent), TIINDIA(up 2.06 per cent) and Ashok Leyland(up 2.02 per cent) were among the top gainers.

Balkrishna Industries(down 2.73 per cent), MRF(down 2.33 per cent), Samvardhana Motherson International(down 2.13 per cent), Hero MotoCorp(down 1.43 per cent) and Maruti Suzuki(down 0.79 per cent) were the top losers on the index.

The Nifty Auto index was up 1.27 per cent at 13122.1 at the time of writing this report.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 169.7 points at 17722.25, while the BSE Sensex was down 615.27 points at 59589.79.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 20 were trading in the green, while 29 were in the red.

Shares of Zomato Ltd., YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, PNB and Tata Motors were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of Touchwood Entertainm, Advitiya Trade India, Jindal Saw, Bombay Super Hybrid and Gretex Industries hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while GTL Ltd, GTL Infra, Dixon Tech, Adani Green and Indus Towers hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.