NEW DELHI: Auto shares were trading in the red in Friday's morning session.Shares of Eicher Motors (down 1 per cent) , Tata Motors (down 1 per cent), Amara Raja Batteries (down 0.93 per cent) and Bajaj Auto (down 0.92 per cent) were the top losers in the index.Mahindra - Mahindra (down 0.46 per cent) , Hero MotoCorp (down 0.23 per cent) , Ashok Leyland (down 0.18 per cent) and Maruti Suzuki India (down 0.13 per cent) too were trading lower.
The Nifty Auto index was trading 0.19 per cent down at 7989.65 around 09:52 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 29.05 points at 11,939.35, while the BSE Sensex was down 84.34 points at 40,490.83.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 21 were trading in the green, while 29 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, ZEEL, NCC, SAIL, SBI, NTPC, Infosys and Tata Motors were among the most traded shares on the NSE.