NEW DELHI: Auto shares were trading in the green with the Nifty Auto index trading 0.69 per cent up at 9159 on Thursday.Shares of Mahindra Mahindra (up 2.65 per cent), Bajaj Auto (up 2.15 per cent), Apollo Tyres (up 1.44 per cent) and Bosch (up 0.84 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.
Bharat Forge (up 0.76 per cent), Tata Motors (up 0.75 per cent), Hero MotoCorp (up 0.68 per cent) and Ashok Leyland (up 0.42 per cent) too were trading in the green.Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 87.50 points at 10,816.35 while BSE Sensex was up 330.88 points at 36,047.83.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 36 were trading in the green, while 14 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, ICICI Bank, LT Fin Holding, Idea Cellular, Axis Bank, Indian Oil Corp, Vedanta, ONGC, SBI, BEL, Bank of Baroda, NTPC, Tata Steel, Tata Motors, ITC and Hindalco Industries were among the most traded shares on the NSE.