Shares of Ashok Leyland Ltd.(up 2.09 per cent), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(up 1.71 per cent), Exide Industries Ltd.(up 1.32 per cent), Bajaj Auto Ltd.(up 1.1 per cent) and Tata Motors Ltd.(up 1.06 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, Eicher Motors Ltd.(down 1.24 per cent), TVS Motor Company Ltd.(down 0.49 per cent), Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd.(down 0.16 per cent) and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.(down 0.12 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty Auto index closed 0.67 per cent up at 24055.0.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 122.3 points at 25090.7, while the BSE Sensex stood up 442.61 points at 82200.34.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 31 ended in the green, while 19 closed in the red. Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, JP Power, PC Jeweller and Paradeep Phosphates were among the most traded shares on the NSE. Shares of Gallantt Metal, Paradeep Phosphates, Borosil Renewables, Mangalore Chem and Bluspring Enterprises Ltd. hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Shriram EPC(PP), Smartworks Coworking, Reliance Comm, SKIL Infrastructure and LCC Infotech hit their fresh 52-week lows.
