Stock market update: Tata Motors, Tata Steel most active stocks in value terms

NEW DELHI: Tata Motors (Rs 199.03 crore) and Tata Steel (Rs 101.74 crore) were leading the pack of most active stocks in terms of value on NSE in morning trade on Friday.

Tech Mahindra (Rs 97.01 crore), Just Dial (Rs 90.03 crore), Tata Consultancy Services (Rs 81.88 crore), Infosys (Rs 73.53 crore), Sun Pharma (Rs 65.39 crore), Strides Shasun (Rs 63.83 crore), Tata Elxsi (Rs 52.27 crore) and Biocon (Rs 51.03 crore) were also among the most active stocks in value terms in that order.

Domestic markets opened on a weak note on Friday tracking selloff in other Asian markets.


There are concerns that global liquidity will take a hit as the ECB looks poised to signal winding down of its bond buying programme.

US stocks ended lower in overnight trade and that too hurt the sentiment.

A kick start of hike in interest rates in emerging markets added to the concern.

The NSE Nifty index was trading 35 points down at 10,733, while the BSE Sensex was down 97 points at 35,366 around 09:30 am.

In the Nifty index, 17 stocks were advancing, while 33 were declining.

Among the sectors, pharma, IT and media were in the green and rest others were in the red.

Tech Mahindra, HCL Technologies, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Tata Motors and Cipla were leading among Nifty gainers.

On the other side, Power Grid Corporation, BPCL, HPCL, Hindalco Industries and Indian Oil Corporation were among the top losers in the Nifty index.