Market Now: CG Consumer Electricals lifts consumer durables index up

NEW DELHI: The BSE Consumer Durables index was trading 0.10 per cent up at 21,809 around 01:05 pm (IST) on Friday, with shares of Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals (up 2.78 per cent) as top gainers.

Shares of Rajesh Exports (up 1.45 per cent), PC Jeweller (up 0.31 per cent) and Whirlpool of India (up 0.28 per cent) were also up in the consumer durables index.

VIP Industries (down 2.89 per cent), TTK Prestige (down 1.56 per cent), Blue Star (down 1.30 per cent), Bajaj Electricals (down 0.65 per cent), Titan Company (down 0.58 per cent) and Symphony (down 0.04 per cent) were down in the index around that time.


Benchmark BSE Sensex was 265 points down at 33,420, while the NSE Nifty50 index was down 89 points at 10,271.

Among the 30 stocks in the Sensex index, 7 were trading in the green, while 23 were in the red.

Shares of Tata Motors and ONGC were down over 2 per cent in the Sensex index.

Shares of Mahindra & Mahindra, on the other hand, were up over 2 per cent.