NEW DELHI: Auto shares were trading in the green in Tuesday's morning session.Shares of Bharat Forge (up 1.74 per cent) , Bosch (up 1.55 per cent) , TVS Motor Company (up 1.37 per cent) and Motherson Sumi Systems (up 1.03 per cent) were the top performers in the index.Hero MotoCorp (up 0.71 per cent) , Apollo Tyres (up 0.65 per cent) , MRF (up 0.59 per cent) and Mahindra - Mahindra (up 0.47 per cent) too were trading higher.
The Nifty Auto index was trading 0.50 per cent up at 8215.90 around 09:45 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 39.90 points at 12,113.65 , while the BSE Sensex was up 176.79 points at 41,066.02.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 39 were trading in the green, while 10 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, ZEEL, Bank of Baroda, ICICI Bank, Bank of India, Federal Bank, IDFC First Bank and SBI were among the most traded shares on the NSE.