Stock market update: Auto stocks on an upward trajectory; Tata Motors top gainer in BSE Auto pack

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Gains in shares of most auto and auto ancillary stocks were keeping BSE Auto pack in green in Friday's session
The BSE Auto index was trading 0.72 per cent up at 19,953 around 01:40 pm
Tata Motors (up 2.59 per cent) was leading pack of gainers
The stock jumped on back of healthy JLR US sales numbers
The total JLR sales in US for December 2018 jumped nearly 24 per cent to 14,079 units against 11,394 units in December 2017
Apollo Tyres (up 1.36 per cent), Bajaj Auto (up 1.10 per cent), TVS Motor Company (up 1.01 per cent) and Mahindra Mahindra (up 0.98 per
cent) climbed up to 1 per cent. Maruti Suzuki India (up 0.85 per cent), Exide Industries (up 0.60 per cent), MRF (up 0.50 per cent), Bharat
Forge (up 0.48 per cent), Cummins India (up 0.31 per cent) and Bosch (up 0.25 per cent) also traded with gains. Shares of Eicher Motors (up
0.09 per cent) and Motherson Sumi Systems (up 0.03 per cent) were almost flat at that time
However, shares of Ashok Leyland (down 1.07 per cent), Balkrishna Industries (down 1.04 per cent) and Hero MotoCorp (down 0.24 per cent)
were in red
Benchmark BSE Sensex was up 198 points at 35,712, while NSE Nifty50 index was up 55 points at 10,728. Among 50 stocks in Nifty index, 40
were trading in green, while 10 were in red
In Sensex index, 24 stocks were up and seven were down
Bharti Airtel, SBI, Axis Bank, ONGC and YES Bank were among top gainers in Sensex kitty.