NEW DELHI: Auto shares were trading in the green in Tuesday's morning session.Shares of Ashok Leyland (up 2.10 per cent) , Apollo Tyres (up 1.91 per cent) , Maruti Suzuki India (up 1.70 per cent) and Tata Motors (up 1.65 per cent) were the top performers in the index.Tata Motors (up 1.13 per cent) , MRF (up 0.81 per cent) , Bosch (up 0.74 per cent) and Mahindra Mahindra (up 0.68 per cent) too were trading higher.
The Nifty Auto index was trading 0.65 per cent up at 8840.10 around 10:21 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 112.35 points at 11,280.40 while the BSE Sensex was up 386.45 points at 37,440.55.Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 42 were trading in the green, while 8 were in the red.
Shares of Ashok Leyland, ICICI Bank, Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, PowerGrid, BEL, Tata Motors, DLF, HDFC Life Insurance Company, NTPC, SBI, HPCL, Indian Oil Corp, SAIL, Vedanta and RIL were among the most traded securities on the NSE.