NEW DELHI: Most auto stocks were on a sticky road during afternoon trade on Monday, weighing on the auto index.However, gains in index heavyweights Mahindra Mahindra (up 1.54 per cent), Tata Motors (up 0.80 per cent) and Exide Industries (up 0.39 per cent) were keeping the fall restricted.
The BSE Auto index was trading 0.07 per cent down at 24,617 around 01:45 pm.
Shares of TVS Motor Company (down 3.64 per cent), Ashok Leyland (down 1.72 per cent) and Cummins India (down 0.98 per cent) were the top losers in the BSE Auto index.
Shares of Bharat Forge (down 0.76 per cent), MRF (down 0.66 per cent), Eicher Motors (down 0.52 per cent), Maruti Suzuki India (down 0.43 per cent), Bajaj Auto (down 0.32 per cent), Motherson Sumi Systems (down 0.26 per cent) and Hero MotoCorp (down 0.13 per cent) were also under pressure.Benchmark BSE Sensex was 68 points down at 35,160, while the NSE Nifty50 index was down 32 points at 10,664.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 17 were trading in the green, while 33 were in the red.
In the Sensex kitty of stocks, 11 stocks were trading up, while 20 were down.Asian Paints, Power Grid and Bharti Airtel were among the top losers in the Sensex index.