Market Now: TVS Motor, Exide, Bajaj Auto among top loser auto stocks

NEW DELHI: Auto stocks such as TVS Motor Company (down 1.39 per cent), Exide Industries (down 1.17 per cent), Eicher Motors (down 1.16 per cent), Ashok Leyland (down 0.56 per cent), Tata Motors (down 0.52 per cent), Bajaj Auto (down 0.43 per cent), Hero MotoCorp (down 0.42 per cent) and Maruti Suzuki India (down 0.22 per cent) were trading in the red in Friday's trade.

The Nifty Auto index was trading 0.12 per cent down at 11,270 around 10:50 am (IST).

However, shares of Bharat Forge (up 2.39 per cent), Apollo Tyres (up 0.99 per cent), Motherson Sumi Systems (up 0.63 per cent), MRF (up 0.57 per cent) and Amara Raja Batteries (up 0.35 per cent) were trading up around that time.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was 15 points up at 10,439, while the BSE Sensex was 53 points up at 33,626.

Among the 51 stocks in the Nifty50 index, 23 were trading in the green, while 27 were in the red.

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As much as 80 stocks, including Adani Ports, Balkrishna Industries, Bharat Forge and Bharti Airtel hit fresh 52-week highs on NSE in Friday's trade.

On the contrary, Shaival Reality, TV Vision, Akash Infra-Projects, Sri Adhikari, Arcotech Ltd, Sintex Plastics Technology, DS Kulkarni Dev and Stampede Cap were among those 12 stocks that touched their new 52-week lows on NSE.