Stock market update: Nifty Auto index advances 0.13% in a weak market

NEW DELHI: The Nifty Auto index traded positive around 11:20AM(IST)on Friday in a weak market.

Tata Motors(up 1.68 per cent), Bajaj Auto(up 0.69 per cent), Eicher Motors(up 0.68 per cent), TIINDIA(up 0.41 per cent) and Maruti Suzuki(up 0.28 per cent) were among the top gainers.

Hero MotoCorp(down 2.28 per cent), Bosch(down 2.11 per cent), Bharat Forge(down 1.07 per cent), Ashok Leyland(down 1.05 per cent) and TVS Motor Company(down 0.96 per cent) were the top losers on the index.

The Nifty Auto index was up 0.13 per cent at 13279.8 at the time of writing this report.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 8.4 points at 18044.3, while the BSE Sensex was down 70.2 points at 60766.21.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 24 were trading in the green, while 26 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, Rail Vikas Nigam, UCO Bank and Vedanta were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of Rainbow Childrens Medicare Ltd., Gandhi Special, NDR Auto Components, Silly Monks Entertai and DC Infotech hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while SREI Infra Fin, Rel Capital, RelDefEngg, Voltas and Coastal Corp(PP)hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.