Stock market update: FMCG stocks up as market rises

NEW DELHI: FMCG stocks were trading higher on Friday at 11:21AM

DFM Foods(up 5.31%), Nakoda Group(up 4.96%), Heritage Foods(up 4.18%), Prataap Snacks(up 4.04%), ADF Foods(up 2.08%), Varun Beverages(up 1.90%), Jyothy Labs(up 1.77%), Hind.Foods(up 1.65%), Emami(up 0.91%) and Tasty Bite Eatables(up 0.68%) were among the top gainers.

Vadilal Industries(down 2.10%), P & G Hygiene(down 1.68%), Godrej Consumer Products(down 1.34%), Future Consumer(down 0.69%), Colgate Palmolive(India)(down 0.65%), Marico(down 0.62%), Zydus Wellness(down 0.57%), Britannia Industries(down 0.49%), Parag Milk(down 0.08%) and Euro India Fresh Foods(down 0.08%) were among the top losers.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 61.85 points up at 18239.95, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was up 328.43 points at 61251.93 at around 11:21AM.

Bajaj Finserv(up 3.37%), HDFC(up 2.65%), Bajaj Auto(up 2.36%), Bajaj Finance(up 1.66%), Kotak Mahindra Bank(up 1.5%), Titan Company Ltd(up 1.47%), Reliance Industries(up 1.33%), HDFC Bank(up 1.19%), UltraTech Cement(up 1.1%) and Oil & Natural Gas Corporation(up 0.97%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Tata Motors(down 2.95%), Hindalco Industries(down 2.64%), Coal India(down 2.44%), Asian Paints(down 2.02%), Infosys(down 1.74%), JSW Steel(down 1.71%), NTPC(down 1.62%), Tata Steel(down 1.4%), Eicher Motors(down 1.39%) and Wipro(down 1.38%) were trading in the red.

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