Stock market update: Capital goods index rises nearly 1%; Dilip Buildcon, HEG, NBCC top gainers in the pack

NEW DELHI: The BSE Capital Goods index was trading 0.86 per cent up at 17,676 around 12:30 pm with most stocks trading with gains.

Shares of Dilip Buildcon (up 4.99 per cent), HEG (up 3.45 per cent), Finolex Cables (up 3.09 per cent) and NBCC (India) (up 2.65 per cent) were the top gainers in the capital goods index.

Shares of Graphite India, Lakshmi Machine Works, GE T&D India, Elgi Equipments, ABB India and SKF India jumped up to 2 per cent.


V-Guard Industries, Havells India, Thermax, Sadbhav Engineering, Suzlon Energy, CG Power and Industrial Solutions, Schaeffler India, AIA Engineering and Larsen & Toubro climbed up to 1 per cent.

Siemens, BHEL, BEML and Carborundum Universal too were in the green in the index.

Meanwhile, Bharat Electronics (down 0.77 per cent) and Kalpataru Power Transmissions (down 0.76 per cent) were in the red around that time.

Market was in the positive territory on buying in most sectors amid positive global cues.

Benchmark BSE Sensex was up 245 points at 35,906, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 71 points at 10,843.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 42 were trading in the green, while 8 were in the red.

In the Sensex kitty, 28 stocks were advancing, while only 3- Tata Consultancy Services, IndusInd Bank and HDFC- were declining.

YES Bank, Axis Bank and Vedanta were leading among the Sensex gainers.