Stock market update: Cement shares down; Andhra Cements slides 5%

NEW DELHI: Shares of cement producers were trading with losses in Thursday's morning session.

Shares of Andhra Cements (down 4.83 per cent), Keerthi Industries (down 4.50 per cent), Shiva Cement (down 2.24 per cent), JK Lakshmi Cement (down 2.03 per cent), India Cements (down 1.54 per cent) and Shree Digvijay Cement (down 1.47 per cent) dropped as much as 5 per cent.

While Sagar Cements (up 0.87 per cent), HeidelbergCement India (up 0.43 per cent), Century Textiles & Industries (up 0.40 per cent), UltraTech Cement (up 0.36 per cent), ACC (up 0.35 per cent), Ambuja Cements (up 0.33 per cent) and Sanghi Industries (up 0.30 per cent) were among the top gainers.


The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 59.50 points down at 10,781.15, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was down 206.28 points at 36,357.6 at around 09:41 am.

Tata Motors (up 1.15 per cent), Maruti Suzuki India (up 0.74 per cent), Asian Paints (up 0.73 per cent), Eicher Motors (up 0.68 per cent), Cipla (up 0.51 per cent) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, YES Bank (down 4.29 per cent), Zee Entertainment Enterprises (down 3.03 per cent), ICICI Bank (down 2.40 per cent), Tata Steel (down 1.86 per cent), Tech Mahindra (down 1.85 per cent) were trading in the red.