NEW DELHI: The BSE Auto index was trading 0.21 per cent up at 24,243 around 02:25 pm on Thursday, with a mixed set of components.
Shares of Ashok Leyland (up 2.35 per cent), Tata Motors (up 1.39 per cent) and Mahindra Mahindra (MM) (up 0.84 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.Balkrishna Industries (up 0.74 per cent), Eicher Motors (up 0.53 per cent) and Bajaj Auto (up 0.41 per cent) too were trading up.However, Cummins India (down 3.89 per cent) and Bharat Forge (down 2.02 per cent) were incurring losses.Bosch (down 0.43 per cent), MRF (down 0.30 per cent), Motherson Sumi Systems (down 0.29 per cent), Apollo Tyres (down 0.24 per cent) and Maruti Suzuki India (down 0.23 per cent) too were among the losers.Shares of Hero MotoCorp (up 0.06 per cent), Exide Industries (down 0.02 per cent) and TVS Motor Company (down 0.01 per cent) were flat around that time.
Market continued to be in the positive zone on gains in heavyweights, including ICICI Bank, Infosys and Axis Bank.
The BSE Sensex was up 140 points at 38,028, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 24 points at 11,474.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 23 were trading in the green, while 27 were in the red.
ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, State Bank of India and Coal India were leading among Sensex scrips.On the other hand, Bharti Airtel, ONGC, HDFC Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank and IndusInd Bank were the top losers in the Sensex kitty of stocks.