Shares of MRF Ltd.(up 3.99 per cent), Bosch Ltd.(up 0.88 per cent), Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(up 0.77 per cent), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(up 0.59 per cent) and Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd.(up 0.58 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, Bharat Forge Ltd.(down 1.53 per cent), Tube Investments of India Ltd.(down 1.02 per cent), Exide Industries Ltd.(down 0.31 per cent), Balkrishna Industries Ltd.(down 0.07 per cent) and Tata Motors Ltd.(down 0.06 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty Auto index closed 0.38 per cent up at 23944.4.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended down 46.41 points at 25476.1, while the BSE Sensex stood down 176.43 points at 83536.08.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 22 ended in the green, while 28 closed in the red. Shares of JP Power, Vodafone Idea, RattanIndia Power, PC Jeweller and Ibull Housing Fin were among the most traded shares on the NSE. Shares of Prostarm Info System, Force Motors, Sambhv Steel Tubes, Samhi Hotels and SML Isuzu hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Nectar Lifesc, Dreamfolks Services, Sadhana Nitro, TECIL Chemicals and Globale Tessile hit their fresh 52-week lows.