Market Now: Auto stocks rise; Maruti Suzuki, MRF among top gainers

NEW DELHI: Most of the auto stocks, including Maruti Suzuki India (up 1.56 per cent), Bharat Forge (up 1.31 per cent), MRF (up 0.67 per cent) and Exide Industries (up 0.67 per cent) were trading up in Friday's trade.

The Nifty Auto index was trading 0.47 per cent up at 11,928.0 around 10:25 am (IST).

Shares of Motherson Sumi Systems (up 0.57 per cent), Ashok Leyland (up 0.51 per cent), Amara Raja Batteries (up 0.48 per cent), Tata Motors (up 0.35 per cent), Bosch (up 0.32 per cent), Tata Motors (up 0.31 per cent), Bajaj Auto (up 0.30 per cent) and Eicher Motors (up 0.26 per cent) were also trading with gains.


TVS Motor Company (down 1.36 per cent) and Mahindra & Mahindra (down 0.11 per cent) were the two components in the Nifty Auto index that were in the red around that time.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty50 index, 35 were trading in the green, while 15 were in the red.

Shares of Tata Power, State Bank of India, Idea Cellular, Vedanta, ITC, Zee Entertainment, HDFC and ICICI Bank were trading among the most active stocks in terms of volume.

Vedanta, Zee Entertainment Enterprises and Maruti Suzuki India were trading among the top gainers in the Nifty50 index.

Tata Consultancy Services, UPL and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries were among the top drags in the Nifty pack of stocks.