Share market update: Fertilizer stocks rise; Rama Phosphates shoots over 5%

NEW DELHI: Most fertilizer stocks were trading in the green in Wednesday's afternoon session.

Shares of Rama Phosphates (up 5.30 per cent), Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers (up 3.27 per cent), Basant Agro Tech (India) (up 3.19 per cent), Zuari Agro Chemicals (up 2.91 per cent) and Bharat Agri Fert & Realty (up 1.58 per cent) were among top gainers.

Deepak Fertilizers & Petrochemicals (up 1.35 per cent) and Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals (up 1.02 per cent) too were trading in the positive zone.


Shiva Global Agro Industries (down 4.85 per cent), Southern Petrochemicals Industries (down 1.88 per cent) and MP Agro Industries (down 1.87 per cent) were trading with losses.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 20.55 points up at 10,818.45, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was up 79.41 points at 36,642.32 at around 11:47 am.

Bharti Airtel (up 1.86 per cent), State Bank of India (up 1.64 per cent), Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (up 1.62 per cent), HDFC Bank (up 1.58 per cent) and Kotak Mahindra Bank (up 1.32 per cent) were among top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (down 6.44 per cent), Tata Motors (down 4.62 per cent), Maruti Suzuki India (down 3.16 per cent), Asian Paints (down 2.54 per cent) and Titan Company (down 2.19 per cent) were trading in red.