Stock market update: FMCG stocks up as market rises

NEW DELHI: FMCG shares closed higher in the Tuesday’s session.

Prataap Snacks(up 6.49%), Dangee Dums(up 4.27%), Vadilal Industries(up 3.92%), Tasty Bite Eatables(up 3.73%), Britannia Industries(up 2.25%), Dodla Dairy(up 1.29%), JHS Svendgaard Laboratories(up 1.26%), P & G Hygiene(up 1.19%), Euro India Fresh Foods(up 1.10%) and TATA CONSUMER PRODUCTS(up 1.01%) stood among the top gainers.

Heritage Foods(down 3.00%), Emami(down 1.36%), Hind.Foods(down 0.85%), Hatsun Agro Product Ltd(down 0.61%) and Gillette India(down 0.23%) were among the top losers of the day.

The NSE Nifty50 index ended 86.8 points up at 17503.35, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed up 198.44 points at 58664.33.

JSW Steel(up 4.0%), Power Grid Corporation of India(up 3.94%), Coal India(up 3.75%), NTPC(up 2.57%), Tata Steel(up 2.32%), Bharti Airtel(up 2.26%), Britannia Industries(up 2.25%), Eicher Motors(up 2.01%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone(up 1.99%) and Tata Motors(up 1.93%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, IndusInd Bank(down 2.54%), Asian Paints(down 2.32%), Infosys(down 1.28%), Bajaj Auto(down 0.27%), Wipro(down 0.19%), Titan Company Ltd(down 0.15%), Maruti Suzuki(down 0.13%), Axis Bank(down 0.11%), Hero MotoCorp(down 0.09%) and ICICI Bank(down 0.02%) closed in the red.

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