Market Now: BSE Smallcap index cools off; Gitanjali Gems top drag

NEW DELHI: The BSE Smallcap index was trading flat at 18,492 around 11:20 am (IST) in Thursday's trade, while the benchmark BSE Sensex was 220 points up at 34,376. The NSE Nifty50 index was 64 points up at 10,565.

Shares of Renaissance Jewellery (up 13.43 per cent), Capital Trust (up 9.58 per cent), Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Company (up 6.35 per cent), Shriram EPC (up 5.53 per cent), Salzer Electronics (up 5.39 per cent), Sanwaria Consumer (up 4.94 per cent), Welspun Enterprises (up 4.88 per cent), LT Foods (up 4.53 per cent), Voltamp Transformers (up 4.51 per cent), Asahi Songwon Colors (up 4.24 per cent), High Ground Enterprise (up 4.21 per cent), SORIL Infra Resources (up 4.14 per cent) were among the top gainers in the smallcap index.

On the contrary, Gitanjali Gems (down 13.40 per cent), Shree Pushkar Chemicals & Fertilisers (down 11.80 per cent), Indian Acrylics (down 9.56 per cent), Camlin Fine Sciences (down 9.55 per cent), Unichem Laboratories (down 8.50 per cent), Gujarat NRE Coke (down 6.73 per cent), Max Ventures and Industries (down 6.11 per cent), PC Jeweller (down 5.91 per cent) and Gulf Oil Lubricants India (down 5.79 per cent) were among the top losers among the smallcap stocks.


Equity markets were in the positive territory as a firm trend at other Asian markets boosted investor sentiment, following overnight gains on Wall Street as investors shrugged off stronger-than-expected inflation data.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty50 index, 30 were trading in the green, while 20 were in the red.

ICICI Bank, Infosys, YES Bank and Adani Ports were among the top gainers in the Sensex index.

Hero MotoCorp, Asian Paints and Coal India were among the losers in the Sensex kitty.