Market ends with marginal losses: Auto, realty, metal drag

The markets ended the day with marginal losses on sccount of selling pressure seen in index pivotals. Also cues from global peers in Asia and the US markets were not very encouraging. Underperformance came from auto, metal and realty stocks followed by pharma, bank and oil & gas stocks.

FMCG major ITC is holding in green which helped FMCG index to close in green. Broader markets closed flat but ahead of the benchmark indices.

Midcap technology stocks like Aptech, NIIT, Rolta and Foursoft, midcap pharma Alpa Labs, RPG Lifesciences ended strong.

IDBI, TTML, Prism, Ashok Leyland are stocks that saw some correction.

Hindalco, ONGC, ITC, Sun Pharma were among the top gainers on the indices.

Cipla, M&M, Tata Motors, Zee Entertainment and Sterlite Ind were among the major losers on the indices.