Share market update: Auto shares in the green; Hero MotoCorp up nearly 3%

NEW DELHI: Auto shares were trading in the green in Thursday's morning session.

Shares of Hero MotoCorp (up 2.87 per cent), Bosch (up 2.86 per cent), Ashok Leyland (up 1.77 per cent) and Bajaj Auto (up 1.01 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.

Eicher Motors (up 0.94 per cent), TVS Motor Company (up 0.78 per cent), Tata Motors (up 0.77 per cent) and Tata Motors (up 0.68 per cent) too were trading higher.


The Nifty Auto index was trading 0.52 per cent up at 8219.75 around 10:09 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 43.35 points at 10,750.30 while the BSE Sensex was down 111.81 points at 35,922.3.

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

Shares of YES Bank, Ashok Leyland, SBI, Indiabulls Housing Finance, SAIL, NTPC, Indian Oil Corp, Vodafone Idea, ONGC, L&T Fin Holding, PowerGrid, ICICI Bank, NHPC, Bharti Airtel, Zee Entertainment and Sun Pharma were among the most traded securities on the NSE.