Market Now: Consumer Durables index down; CG Consumer Electricals top drag

NEW DELHI: The BSE Consumer Durables index was trading 0.13 per cent down at 23,153 around 11:55 am (IST) on Thursday, with shares of Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals (down 3.84 per cent) as the top drag.

Shares of TTK Prestige (down 2.48 per cent), Bajaj Electricals (down 2.00 per cent), Blue Star (down 1.05 per cent), Symphony (down 0.70 per cent), Whirlpool of India (down 0.42 per cent) and Rajesh Exports (down 0.12 per cent) were also down around that time.

However, shares of PC Jeweller (up 1.40 per cent), Titan Company (up 0.99 per cent) and VIP Industries (up 0.80 per cent) were up in the index around that time.


Benchmark BSE Sensex was 82 points down at 36,080, while the NSE Nifty50 index was 18 points down at 11,068.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty50 index, 22 were trading in the green, while 28 were in the red.

Larsen & Toubro, Coal India, ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank and Axis Bank were leading the Sensex index.

On the other hand, State Bank of India, Infosys and YES Bank were declined over 1 per cent in the Sensex index.