Share market update: Sugar stocks mixed; Empee Sugars slips 5%

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

Shares of Empee Sugars & Chemicals (down 5 per cent), Thiru Arooran Sugars (down 4.41 per cent), Indian Sucrose (down 4.29 per cent), Piccadily Agro Industries (down 2.68 per cent), Uttam Sugar Mills (down 1.97 per cent), BAJAJHIND (down 1.86 per cent), Dalmia Bharat Sugar & Industries (down 1.81 per cent), K.M.Sugar Mills (down 1.56 per cent), Piccadily Sugar & Allied Inds (down 1.56 per cent) slipped up to 5 per cent.

Meanwhile, Gayatri Sugars (up 5 per cent), PARVATI (up 4.72 per cent), Dharani Sugars & Chemicals (up 3.90 per cent), MAGADHSUGAR (up 2.53 per cent), Ugar Sugar Works (up 2.45 per cent), EID Parry (up 1.44 per cent), Dwarikesh Sugar Industries (up 1.27 per cent) were trading higher.


The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 45.90 points up at 11,640.35 while the 30share BSE Sensex was up 161.85 points at 38,807.03 around 02:32 pm.

Bharti Airtel (up 16.81 per cent), Zee Entertainment Enterprises (up 4.03 per cent), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (up 3.76 per cent), Oil And Natural Gas Corporation (up 2.98 per cent) and Indiabulls Housing Finance (up 1.91 per cent) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, NTPC (down 1.62 per cent), GAIL (India) (down 1.49 per cent), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (down 1.26 per cent), Bharti Infratel (down 1.22 per cent) and Mahindra & Mahindra (down 1.12 per cent) were trading in the red.