Stock market update: FMCG stocks up as market rises

NEW DELHI: FMCG stocks were trading higher on Thursday at 11:06AM

Euro India Fresh Foods Ltd.(up 2.70%), Dodla Dairy Ltd.(up 1.69%), Emami Ltd.(up 1.38%), Prataap Snacks Ltd.(up 1.31%), JHS Svendgaard Laboratories Ltd.(up 1.13%), Bajaj Consumer Care Ltd.(up 1.12%), Dangee Dums Ltd.(up 0.84%), Hindustan Unilever Ltd.(up 0.69%), Heritage Foods Ltd.(up 0.65%) and Godrej Consumer Products Ltd.(up 0.58%) were among the top gainers.

Umang Dairies(down 4.53%), Nakoda Group(down 3.18%), ADF Foods(down 1.29%), Vadilal Industries(down 1.28%), Parag Milk(down 1.23%), DFM Foods(down 0.90%), Hind.Foods(down 0.64%), Hatsun Agro Product Ltd(down 0.55%), Jyothy Labs(down 0.40%) and Colgate Palmolive(India)(down 0.40%) were among the top losers.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 139.6 points up at 18301.35, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was up 412.66 points at 61149.71 at around 11:06AM.

Wipro(up 7.07%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone(up 5.13%), Grasim Industries(up 4.13%), Tech Mahindra(up 3.55%), Larsen & Toubro(up 2.74%), Hindalco Industries(up 2.73%), Indian Oil Corporation(up 2.32%), JSW Steel(up 1.98%), Tata Steel(up 1.97%) and Power Grid Corporation of India(up 1.73%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Tata Motors(down 2.18%), Coal India(down 2.13%), IndusInd Bank(down 1.45%), Eicher Motors(down 1.23%), Bajaj Finance(down 0.98%), Mahindra & Mahindra(down 0.63%), Tata Consultancy(down 0.6%), HDFC LIFE INSURANCE(down 0.6%), HCL Technologies(down 0.58%) and SBI Life(down 0.35%) were trading in the red.

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