NEW DELHI: Over 80 stocks including Ajanta Pharma, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise, BEML, Caplin Point Laboratories and Century Textiles Industries hit 52-week lows on NSE during Friday's trade.Engineers India, Indian Hume Pipe Company, Jaiprakash Power Ventures, Manpasand Beverages, MBL Infrastructures and Pratibha Industries also featured among stocks that touched 52-week lows today.Equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty ran into turbulence as GDP optimism took a knock from weak global cues.
The NSE Nifty50 index was down 2 points at 10,734, while the BSE Sensex was up 16 points at 35,338.Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 25 were trading in the green, while 25 were in the red.
Bajaj Auto, Vedanta, Maruti Suzuki India, Tata Motors and Larsen Toubro were among the top gainers in the Nifty index.On the other hand, Power Grid Corporation, ONGC, GAIL (India) and Bajaj Finserv were leading among the Nifty losers.