Market Now: BSE Consumer Durables index up; Titan rises 2%

NEW DELHI: The S&P BSE Consumer Durables index was trading 0.77 per cent up at 18,467 around 01:15 pm (IST), with shares of Titan Company (up 2.49 per cent), TTK Prestige (up 1.44 per cent), Nilkamal (up 0.75 per cent) and Bajaj Electricals (up 0.54 per cent) as the top gainers.

However, Blue Star (down 1.35 per cent), Whirlpool of India (down 0.99 per cent), Rajesh Exports (down 0.85 per cent) and Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals (down 0.24 per cent) were the losers in the index around that time.

Equity benchmarks remained dull. Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was 6 points down at 10,358, while the BSE Sensex was 3 points down at 33,263.

Among the 51 stocks in the Nifty50 index, 25 were trading in the green, while 25 were in the red.

Telecom stocks such as Reliance Communications, Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra), Tata Communications, Bharti Infratel and Bharti Airtel were trading up, keeping the BSE Telecom index in the positive territory.

However, IT stocks, including Infosys, Hexaware, Tech Mahindra, OFSS and MindTree were trading down.

Axis Bank, Oil & Natural Gas Corporation, Dr Reddy's Lab, Bharti Airtel, HDFC and Hero MotoCorp were among the top gainers in the Sensex index.

On the contrary, Infosys, Tata Steel, Mahindra & Mahindra, State Bank of India, Coal India, Tata Motors and Larsen & Toubro were among the top losers.