Aug 18 @ 12:00 : Grasim Up 7.8%, ONGC, UPL, Ultratech, Titan Up, Vedanta, Tech Mahindra Down

Nifty and Sensex holding on to morning gains and now up around .4%. Grasim is the super performer today – up around 7.8% at 12 noon. Other stocks which are pushing up nifty50 are UPL (2.7%), Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (2.7%), UltraTech Cement (2.5%), Titan Company (2.0%), Eicher Motors (1.9%), Shree Cement (1.7%) etc while Vedanta (-1.4%), Tech Mahindra (-1.0%), Zee Entertainment Enterprises (-0.9%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (-0.8%), HCL Technologies (-0.7%) etc pulling it down.

Grasim Industries (20%), Tech Mahindra (16%), Shree Cement (14%), Eicher Motors (11%), Maruti Suzuki India (10%), Britannia Industries (10%), UltraTech Cement (10%), Hero MotoCorp (8%) etc showing good buy bids while ICICI Bank (-44%), UPL (-44%), Vedanta (-41%), IndusInd Bank (-41%), Kotak Mahindra Bank (-39%), HDFC Bank (-39%) etc are in the sell side.

Grasim Industries (260.5%) volume up almost 3 times in first few hours of trading itself. NTPC (100.0%) also trading with good volumes. Other volume gainers are UPL (15.9%), UltraTech Cement (14.8%), Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (11.0%) etc

Major Recoveries Today : Grasim Industries (8.5%), Vedanta (5.1%), Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (2.9%), UPL (2.8%), UltraTech Cement (2.4%), Eicher Motors (2.2%), Zee Entertainment Enterprises (2.1%), Major Drops Today : NTPC (-3.3%), Vedanta (-2.9%), Tech Mahindra (-2.0%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (-1.7%), Cipla (-1.6%), Wipro (-1.6%), Coal India (-1.5%)