NEW DELHI: Auto shares were trading in the red in Monday's morning session.Shares of Ashok Leyland (down 3.13 per cent) , Apollo Tyres (down 2.90 per cent) , Bharat Forge (down 2.78 per cent) and Motherson Sumi Systems (down 2.10 per cent) were the top losers in the index.
Exide Industries (down 2.05 per cent) , Eicher Motors (down 1.94 per cent) , Tata Motors (down 1.78 per cent) and Amara Raja Batteries (down 1.67 per cent) too were trading lower.
The Nifty Auto index was trading 1.26 per cent down at 8859.65 around 09:47 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 89.85 points at 11,662.95 while the BSE Sensex was down 257.12 points at 38,883.16.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 9 were trading in the green, while 41 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, RIL, SAIL, SBI, Bank of Baroda, Indian Oil Corp, DLF, JSW Steel, HPCL, Wipro, BHEL and HDFC Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.