NEW DELHI: Auto shares were trading in the green in Monday's morning session.Shares of Tata Motors (up 4.33 per cent), Motherson Sumi Systems (up 1.91 per cent) , Apollo Tyres (up 1.70 per cent) and Hero MotoCorp (up 1.49 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.Bharat Forge (up 1.45 per cent) , Exide Industries (up 1.00 per cent) , TVS Motor Company (up 0.85 per cent) and Ashok Leyland (up 0.73 per cent) too were trading with gains.The Nifty Auto index was trading 0.72 per cent up at 8840.45 around 10:01 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 13.40 points at 11656.85 while the BSE Sensex was up 45.87 points at 38,812.98.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 31 were trading in the green, while 19 were in the red.
Shares of Tata Motors, Infosys, Ashok Leyland, Vodafone Idea, SAIL, ITC, BHEL, YES Bank, SBI, DLF, Coal India, TCS, Bharti Airtel, Bank of Baroda and ICICI Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.