NEW DELHI: Auto shares were trading in red in Tuesday's morning session.
Shares of Ashok Leyland (down 3.53 per cent), TVS Motor Company (down 2.71 per cent), Mahindra Mahindra (down 2.30 per cent ) and Motherson Sumi Systems (down 1.50 per cent) were worst performers in index.
Maruti Suzuki India (down 1.21 per cent), Exide Industries (down 0.86 per cent) and Tata Motors (down 0.78 per cent) too were trading lower.
The Nifty Auto index was trading 1.17 per cent down at 8644.35 around 10:11 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 54.35 points at 10,907.50 while BSE Sensex was down 175.39 points at 36,403.57.
Among 50 stocks in Nifty index, 15 were trading in green, while 35 were in red.
Shares of YES Bank, Sun Pharma, Ashok Leyland, LT Fin Holding, Vodafone Idea, Kotak Bank, RIL, SAIL, Vedanta , Wipro, Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Bank of Baroda, SBI, ITC and NTPC were among most traded shares on NSE.