Southern Petrochemicals Industries(up 2.92%), Fertilizers & Chemicals Tranvancore(up 2.71%), Aries Agro(up 2.54%), National Fertilizer(up 2.34%), Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers (up 2.31%), Madras Fertlizers(up 2.20%), G S F C(up 1.30%), Agro Phos(up 1.19%), Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers(up 0.54%) and Coromandel International(up 0.47%) were among the top gainers.
Sikko Industries(down 4.93%), Bohra Industries(down 3.95%), Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chem(down 1.91%), Khaitan Chemicals & Fertilizers(down 1.54%), Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers(down 1.03%), Madhya Bharat Agro Products(down 0.33%), Deepak Fertilizers & Petrochemicals(down 0.21%) and KRISHANA(down 0.03%) were among the top losers.
The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 77.8 points down at 17338.75, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was down 349.04 points at 58116.85 at around 10:14AM.
JSW Steel(up 3.42%), Tata Steel(up 2.39%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone(up 1.57%), Divis Laboratories(up 1.41%), NTPC(up 1.34%), Power Grid Corporation of India(up 1.26%), Tata Motors(up 0.89%), Britannia Industries(up 0.86%), Hindalco Industries(up 0.81%) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation(up 0.7%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.
On the other hand, Infosys(down 2.49%), Reliance Industries(down 1.39%), IndusInd Bank(down 1.38%), Asian Paints(down 1.34%), Oil & Natural Gas Corporation(down 1.33%), ICICI Bank(down 0.99%), Tata Consultancy(down 0.92%), Shree Cement(down 0.89%), Hindustan Unilever(down 0.86%) and Bajaj Auto(down 0.7%) were trading in the red.