Market Now: BSE Consumer Durables index in the green; Symphony up 3%

NEW DELHI: Shares of Symphony (up 2.69 per cent), Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals (up 2.10 per cent), PC Jeweller (up 1.56 per cent) and Titan Company (up 0.04 per cent) were trading up in the BSE Consumer Durables index in afternoon trade on Thursday.

The S&P BSE Consumer Durables index was trading 0.28 per cent up at 20,068 around 02:20 pm (IST).

However, shares of Blue Star (down 0.80 per cent), Rajesh Exports (down 0.73 per cent), TTK Prestige (down 0.68 per cent), Whirlpool of India (down 0.63 per cent), Nilkamal (down 0.30 per cent) and Bajaj Electricals (down 0.25 per cent) were trading down in the index around that time.

Benchmark BSE Sensex was 294 points up at 33,055, while the NSE Nifty50 index was 85 points up at 10,203.

Among the 51 stocks in the Nifty50 index, 38 were trading in the green, while 12 were in the red.

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Infosys, Reliance Industries, State Bank of India, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Motors, NTPC, Oil & Natural Gas Corporation and Hindustan Unilever were among the top gainers in the Sensex index.

Adani Ports, Coal India, Bajaj Auto, Cipla and Hero MotoCorp were among the losers.