NEW DELHI: Losses in Tata Motors (down 5.08 per cent), Motherson Sumi Systems (down 4.32 per cent) and Ashok Leyland (down 2.64 per cent) were suffering heavy losses during Monday's trade, keeping the BSE Auto index down.The BSE Auto index was trading 1.23 per cent down at 24,372 around 02:50 pm.
Shares of Bharat Forge (down 1.61 per cent), Hero MotoCorp (down 1.40 per cent), Balkrishna Industries (down 1.27 per cent), Apollo Tyres (down 1.19 per cent), Maruti Suzuki India (down 0.96 per cent), Bajaj Auto (down 0.90 per cent) and MRF (down 0.38 per cent) were also among the losers.Meanwhile, TVS Motor Company (up 3.41 per cent) and Eicher Motors (up 1.39 per cent) were up, while Bosch (up 0.03 per cent) and Cummins India (down 0.01 per cent) were flat around the same time.
Benchmark BSE Sensex was 163 points down at 35,526, while the NSE Nifty50 index was down 49 points at 10,773.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 17 were trading in the green, while 33 were in the red.
In the Sensex index, 9 stocks were advancing and 22 were declining.
Tata Motors, ICICI Bank and Coal India were among the top losers in the Sensex kitty of stocks.