Quiet day for markets, November eases October's bloodbath

It was a mildly choppy day for the markets in trade. While select private sector banks, autos and IT stocks did well, oil marketing stocks saw some profit booking ahead of the crucial OPEC meet in Vienna. The smallcaps outperformed frontline indices and volumes improved despite weak market breadth. The month however, has been starkly different to October's losses thanks to the big cool - off in crude prices.