Sikko Industries(up 4.96%), Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers(up 2.36%), Madras Fertlizers(up 2.23%), Coromandel International(up 1.75%), Fertilizers & Chemicals Tranvancore(up 0.71%), Southern Petrochemicals Industries(up 0.63%), Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers(up 0.56%), Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals(up 0.56%), Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers (up 0.47%) and National Fertilizer(up 0.44%) stood among the top gainers.
Agro Phos(down 6.20%), Aries Agro(down 3.41%), G S F C(down 1.33%), Madhya Bharat Agro Products(down 1.19%), Deepak Fertilizers & Petrochemicals(down 0.79%) and KRISHANA(down 0.21%) were among the top losers of the day.
The NSE Nifty50 index ended 24.3 points down at 18044.25, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed down 112.16 points at 60433.45.
Mahindra & Mahindra(up 3.8%), Tata Motors(up 1.65%), Hero MotoCorp(up 1.17%), State Bank of India(up 1.13%), Oil & Natural Gas Corporation(up 1.13%), Divis Laboratories(up 1.12%), Larsen & Toubro(up 0.99%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone(up 0.94%), ICICI Bank(up 0.82%) and Grasim Industries(up 0.81%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.
On the other hand, Britannia Industries(down 2.58%), HDFC Bank(down 1.75%), Maruti Suzuki(down 1.39%), Power Grid Corporation of India(down 1.37%), JSW Steel(down 1.34%), NTPC(down 1.28%), HDFC(down 1.27%), Bajaj Finance(down 1.25%), Hindalco Industries(down 1.11%) and Kotak Mahindra Bank(down 1.02%) closed in the red.
