INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Most auto stocks settled on a mixed note on Tuesday amid mixed December auto sales numbers
The Nifty Auto index closed 0.57 per cent down at 9182.45
Sales of Maruti Suzuki India were down for second straight month and it reported 1.3 per cent decline in sales at 1,28,338 units in
Shares of Maruti Suzuki India closed up 0.15 per cent at 7,476.85.
Mahindra Mahindra sold 39,755 units in December, an increase of 1 per
Also, Escorts sold 4,598 tractors in December, an increase of 27.5 per cent from corresponding month previous year while Eicher Motors sold
6,236 units of commercial vehicles last month, an increase of 2.40 per cent from December 2017.
Shares of Tata Motors (up 0.75 per cent),
Tata Motors (DVR) (up 0.65 per cent), Hero MotoCorp (up 0.64 per cent) and Bharat Forge (up 0.29 per cent) stood among top performers in
Mahindra Mahindra (down 3.84 per cent), TVS Motor Company (down 1.20 per cent), Motherson Sumi Systems (down 0.69 per cent) and Apollo
Tyres (down 0.68 per cent) closed in red
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index closed up 47.55 points at 10,910.10 while BSE Sensex closed 186.24 points higher at 36,254.57.
Among 50 stocks
in Nifty index, 32 stood in green, while 18 closed in red
Shares of YES Bank, Bank of Baroda, Ashok Leyland, Axis Bank, SBI, SAIL, Vodafone Idea, Sun Pharma, ICICI Bank, Tata Motors, BHEL, DLF,
Bharti Airtel, Hindalco Industries, ONGC and RIL stood among most traded shares on NSE.
