NEW DELHI: Auto shares were trading in the red in Thursday's morning session.Shares of Hero MotoCorp (down 1.65 per cent) , Tata Motors (down 1.18 per cent) , Motherson Sumi Systems (down 1.12 per cent) and Bajaj Auto (down 1.10 per cent) were the worst performers in index.TVS Motor Company (down 1.05 per cent) , Bosch (down 0.96 per cent) , Bharat Forge (down 0.84 per cent) and Tata Motors (down 0.77 per cent) too were trading lower.
The Nifty Auto index was trading 0.70 per cent down at 8706 around 10:08 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 21.40 points at 11,363.10 while the BSE Sensex was up 96.07 points at 37,848.24.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 22 were trading in the green, while 28 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, Ashok Leyland, Tata Motors, SAIL, BEL, Bank of Baroda, SBI, RIL, Indian Oil Corp, ICICI Bank, Zee Entertainment, DLF, Lupin and Vedanta were among the most traded shares on the NSE.