Stock market update: Nifty Auto index advances 0.54% in a weak market

NEW DELHI: The Nifty Auto index traded positive around 11:15AM(IST)on Tuesday in a weak market.

TIINDIA(up 3.64 per cent), Hero MotoCorp(up 1.99 per cent), Balkrishna Industries(up 1.28 per cent), MRF(up 1.21 per cent) and Samvardhana Motherson International(up 1.03 per cent) were among the top gainers.

Ashok Leyland(down 1.15 per cent), Bharat Forge(down 1.07 per cent), Sona BLW Precision Forgings(down 0.27 per cent) and Mahindra & Mahindra(down 0.18 per cent) were the top losers on the index.

The Nifty Auto index was up 0.54 per cent at 13142.2 at the time of writing this report.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 44.0 points at 18285.15, while the BSE Sensex was down 172.24 points at 61451.91.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 20 were trading in the green, while 30 were in the red.

Shares of Rail Vikas Nigam, Zomato Ltd., YES Bank, Suzlon Energy and Indian Railway Finance Corporation Ltd. were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of Vesuvius India, Linc Pen Plast, Bohra Industries, Shreyans Ind and Gabriel India hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Cyber Media Research & Services Ltd., CMM Infraprojects Ltd., Globus Spirits, Intrasoft Tech and Sumeet Ind hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.