Share market update: Auto shares in the red; Apollo Tyres down 2%

NEW DELHI: Auto shares were trading in the red in Monday's morning session.

Shares of Apollo Tyres (down 2.03 per cent) , TVS Motor Company (down 1.12 per cent) , Hero MotoCorp (down 0.73 per cent) , Motherson Sumi Systems (down 0.64 per cent) , Bajaj Auto (down 0.55 per cent) , Exide Industries (down 0.51 per cent) , Maruti Suzuki (down 0.27 per cent), MRF (down 0.15 per cent) and Bharat Forge (down 0.13 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

The Nifty Auto index was trading 0.06 per cent down at 8422.3 around 09:47 am.


Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 7.95 points at 12,344.40, while the BSE Sensex was down 2.83 points at 41,942.54.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 29 were trading in the green, while 21 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, NHPC, YES Bank, Indian Oil Corp, Tata Motors, PowerGrid, NMDC, Ashok Leyland, Bharti Airtel and JSPL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.