NEW DELHI: Auto shares were trading in the green with the Nifty Auto index up 0.89 per cent at 9301.1 around 12:42 pm on Friday.
Shares of Maruti Suzuki India (up 2.12 per cent), Hero MotoCorp (up 1.85 per cent), Tata Motors (up 1.46 per cent) and Bajaj Auto (up 1.23 per cent) clocked decent gains.
Bosch (up 1.08 per cent), Mahindra Mahindra (up 0.86 per cent), Tata Motors (up 0.85 per cent) and TVS Motor Company (up 0.49 per cent) too were trading in the green.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 9.95 points at 10,608.35 while BSE Sensex was up 8.83 points at 35246.51 at that time.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 30 were trading in the green, while 19 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, Tata Motors, SBI, Ashok Leyland, Bank of Baroda, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, ITC, HPCL, Infosys, Idea Cellular, RIL, NHPC, Hindalco Inds., Bharti Airtel and Indian Oil Corp were among the most traded shares on the National Stock Exchange.