Share market update: Fertilizer stocks mixed; Deepak Fertilizers dips 2%

NEW DELHI: Fertilizer stocks were trading on a mixed note in Tuesday's afternoon session.

Phosphate Company (up 4.92 per cent) , Basant Agro Tech (India) (up 4.10 per cent) , Shiva Global Agro Industries (up 3.51 per cent) and Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chem (up 2.05 per cent) were among the top gainers.

Deepak Fertilizers & Petrochemicals (down 2.11 per cent) , Khaitan Chemicals & Fertilizers (down 1.88 per cent) , Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers (down 1.57 per cent) and Fertilizers & Chemicals Tranvancore (down 1.55 per cent) were among the top losers.


The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 71.70 points down at 11,976.50, while the 30share BSE Sensex was down 186.67 points at 40,615.50 at around 02:08 pm.

Bajaj Auto (up 2.08 per cent), Tata Consultancy Services (up 1.73 per cent) , Titan Company (up 0.82 per cent) and Bajaj Finserv (up 0.72 per cent) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Bharti Infratel (down 9.04 per cent) , Zee Entertainment Enterprises (down 5.94 per cent) , YES Bank (down 5.15 per cent) and Tata Steel (down 4.44 per cent) were trading in the red.