Auto index top sectoral gainer on BSE; Ashok Leyland leads the pack

NEW DELHI: The auto index emerged as the top gainer among the sectoral indices on BSE on Tuesday.

The BSE Auto index finished Tuesday's trade 1.73 per cent up at 24,295.

Ashok Leyland (up 5.14 per cent) remained the top gainer in the auto index, followed by Tata Motors (up 3.78 per cent), Motherson Sumi Systems (up 3.49 per cent) and Bajaj Auto (up 3.36 per cent).

Bosch (up 2.83 per cent), Eicher Motors (up 1.61 per cent), Maruti Suzuki India (up 1.56 per cent) and MRF (up 1.18 per cent) clocked up decent gains.

Exide Industries (up 0.77 per cent), Mahindra & Mahindra (up 0.50 per cent), Hero MotoCorp (up 0.41 per cent), TVS Motor Company (up 0.20 per cent) and Cummins India (up 0.09 per cent) also settled in the green.

Meanwhile, Bharat Forge (down 2.22 per cent) cracked over 2 per cent and remained the lone loser in the auto index.

Equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty snapped five-day losing streak on Tuesday on gains led by metal, auto and pharma stocks amid mixed global cues.

However, concerns over rising global oil prices and precarious rupee against the US dollar kept market sentiment restricted.

The Sensex closed the day 0.10 per cent up at 34,651, while the Nifty finished at 10,537, up by 20 points or 0.19 per cent.

In the Sensex kitty 19 stocks closed the day in the green and 12 in the red, whereas in the Nifty pack, 31 remained in the green, 18 in the red and 1 unchanged.

Bajaj Finserv, Bajaj Finance, Berger Paints, DSP BlackRock Liquid ETF and Magma Fincorp were the 5 stocks that hit 52-week highs on NSE on Tuesday.