Stock market update: FMCG stocks up as market rises

NEW DELHI: FMCG stocks were trading higher on Monday at 10:19AM

Prataap Snacks(up 2.62%), DFM Foods(up 2.31%), ADF Foods(up 2.21%), Varun Beverages(up 2.11%), Euro India Fresh Foods(up 1.99%), Vadilal Industries(up 1.74%), Dabur India(up 1.15%), Hatsun Agro Product Ltd(up 1.09%), Heritage Foods(up 1.05%) and TATA CONSUMER PRODUCTS(up 0.99%) were among the top gainers.

JHS Svendgaard Laboratories(down 1.13%), Future Consumer(down 0.65%), Mrs Bectors Food Specialities(down 0.33%), Dangee Dums(down 0.24%) and Godrej Consumer Products(down 0.06%) were among the top losers.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 158.35 points up at 18496.9, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was up 479.75 points at 61785.7 at around 10:19AM.

Tata Motors(up 4.65%), Hindalco Industries(up 4.24%), Titan Company Ltd(up 3.61%), Infosys(up 3.07%), JSW Steel(up 3.04%), Oil & Natural Gas Corporation(up 2.89%), Tata Steel(up 2.56%), Maruti Suzuki(up 2.35%), ICICI Bank(up 2.16%) and Indian Oil Corporation(up 2.05%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, HCL Technologies(down 1.77%), Asian Paints(down 1.58%), Dr Reddys Laboratories(down 0.97%), Bajaj Auto(down 0.71%), IndusInd Bank(down 0.66%), Cipla(down 0.64%), Divis Laboratories(down 0.61%), HDFC Bank(down 0.5%), HDFC LIFE INSURANCE(down 0.28%) and HDFC(down 0.11%) were trading in the red.

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