Market Now: SmallCap index touched fresh high; Aban Offshore top gainer

NEW DELHI: While the benchmark indices remained cautious, the S&P BSE SmallCap index soared to touch its all-time high of 15760.25 with shares of Aban Offshore (up 12.22 per cent) as its top gainer in Friday's trade.

It was followed by B L Kashyap & Sons (up 9.38 per cent), Prozone Intu Properties (up 8.64 per cent), Usha Martin (up 8.38 per cent), Aptech (up 8.33 per cent), Nagarjuna Fertilizers and Chemicals (up 8.22 per cent), MPS (up 8.05 per cent), Jindal Saw (up 7.02 per cent), Indian Hume Pipe Company (up 6.45 per cent), Hindustan Oil Exploration Company (up 6.39 per cent), BASF India (up 6.24 per cent), Nutraplus India (up 5.86 per cent), Reliance Industrial InfraStructure (up 5.80 per cent), McNally Bharat Engineering Company (up 5.78 per cent) and Va Tech Wabag (up 5.53 per cent).

However, stocks such as Stampede Capital (down 19.85 per cent ), Ipca Laboratories (down 11.15 per cent ), Amtek Auto (down 10.18 per cent ), Metalyst Forgings (down 7.38 per cent ), Lanco Infratech (down 6.25 per cent ), Monnet Ispat & Energy (down 5.80 per cent ), Himachal Fibres (down 5.55 per cent ), Ricoh India (down 4.99 per cent ), Castex Technologies (down 4.97 per cent ), Videocon Industries (down 4.93 per cent ), Alok Industries (down 4.66 per cent ), Fineotex Chemical (down 3.50 per cent ), Bhushan Steel (down 3.47 per cent ), JM Financial (down 3.31 per cent ) and Dhunseri Petrochem (down 3.28 per cent ) were trading in red around the same time.

The BSE SmallCap index was trading 0.41 per cent up at 15710.14 around 12:38 pm (IST).

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 14.10 points at 9592.15, while BSE Sensex was up 44.69 points at 31120.42.

Among the 51 stocks in Nifty index, 26 were trading in green, while 24 were in red.

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Shares of JP Associates, GMR Infra, Indiabulls RE, HDFC, Idea Cellular, Reliance Comm, Suzlon Energy, HDIL, Aban Offshore, Amtek Auto, ICICI Bank, Adani Power, GVK Power Infra, Unitech and SBI were among most traded securities on the National Stock Exchange.