Share market update: Sugar stocks advance; Simbhaoli Sugars surges 20%

NEW DELHI: Most sugar stocks were trading in the green in Thrusday's morinng session.

Shares of Simbhaoli Sugars (up 19.92 per cent), Dharani Sugars & Chemicals (up 9.95 per cent), Piccadily Sugar & Allied Inds (up 4.91 per cent), Riga Sugar Company (up 4.72 per cent) and Sakthi Sugars (up 3.91 per cent) gained up to 20 per cent.

Gayatri Sugars (up 3.33 per cent), Mawana Sugars (up 3.01 per cent), Rana Sugars (up 2.56 per cent) and Avadh Sugar (up 2.33 per cent) too were trading in the green.


The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 68.35 points up at 10,913.0, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was up 146.61 points at 36,871.35 at around 10:41 am.

Coal India (up 7.52 per cent), Oil And Natural Gas Corporation (up 7.48 per cent), NTPC (up 6.57 per cent), Indian Oil Corporation (up 5.61 per cent) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation (up 5.10 per cent) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Housing Development Finance Corporation (down 1.78 per cent), ICICI Bank (down 1.43 per cent), HCL Technologies (down 0.99 per cent), Hindustan Unilever (down 0.99 per cent) and Asian Paints (down 0.63 per cent) were trading in the red.