Share market update: BSE Capital Goods index up; HEG gains 2%

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

Shares of Lakshmi Machine Works (up 2.36 per cent), HEG (up 2.30 per cent), Elgi Equipments (up 2.27 per cent) and Graphite India (up 2.16 per cent) were the top performers in the index.

Dilip Buildcon (up 1.79 per cent), Larsen & Toubro (up 1.50 per cent), SKF India (up 1.34 per cent) and Havells India (up 1.34 per cent) too were trading with gains.


The S&P BSE Capital Goods index was trading 1.15 per cent up at 17,697.30 around 12:15 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 91.85 points at 11,348.95 while the BSE Sensex was up 333.24 points at 37,726.72.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 31 were trading in the green, while 19 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Reliance Capital, Vakrangee, Suzlon Energy, Spicejet, PC Jeweller, ICICI Bank, Bank of India and Adani Power were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

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