Share market update: BSE Capital Goods index down; Siemens slips 4%

NEW DELHI: The S&P BSE Capital Goods index was down in Friday's afternoon session.

Shares of Siemens (down 3.61 per cent), SKF India (down 2.83 per cent), Schaeffler India (down 2.37 per cent) and NBCC (India) (down 2.01 per cent) were trading with losses.

Lakshmi Machine Works (down 1.72 per cent), Havells India (down 1.66 per cent), ABB India (down 1.64 per cent) and Larsen & Toubro (down 1.42 per cent) too were the top losers in the index.


The S&P BSE Capital Goods index was trading 1.25 per cent down at 17,678.02 around 11:59 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 63.05 points at 11,905.35, while the BSE Sensex was down 215.78 points at 40,359.39.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 21 were trading in the green, while 29 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, NCC, Zee Ent., SAIL, PNB, JSPL, GMR Infra and Bank of Baroda were among the most traded shares on the NSE.