Shares of Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(up 1.98 per cent), Bosch Ltd.(up 0.46 per cent), Bharat Forge Ltd.(up 0.4 per cent), MRF Ltd.(up 0.36 per cent) and Bajaj Auto Ltd.(up 0.3 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, Balkrishna Industries Ltd.(down 2.01 per cent), Eicher Motors Ltd.(down 1.83 per cent), Tata Motors Ltd.(down 1.82 per cent), Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd.(down 1.8 per cent) and Apollo Tyres Ltd.(down 1.79 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty Auto index closed 1.0 per cent down at 23167.25.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended down 346.36 points at 24578.35, while the BSE Sensex stood down 1281.68 points at 81148.22.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 13 ended in the green, while 37 closed in the red. Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Swiggy, Reliance Power and Canara Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE. Shares of Stampede Cap(DVR), Suven Life Sci, Vishal Mega Mart, India Glycols and Ajax Engineering hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Dharamsi Morarji, Karda Const, Career Point, Swiggy and Century Enka hit their fresh 52-week lows.