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 December 2018.
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 cent from year ago month while its farm equipment sales declined 6 per cent on a yearly basis.
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 index.
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.