Stock market update: Cement stocks advance; NCL jumps over 4%

NEW DELHI: Most of the cement stocks were trading with gains in Wednesday's morning session.

Shares of NCL Industries (up 4.41 per cent), Burnpur Cement (up 4.17 per cent), Sagar Cements (up 3.66 per cent), Prism Johnson (up 2.78 per cent), Mangalam Cement (up 2.49 per cent), Ambuja Cements (up 2.12 per cent) and Andhra Cements (up 2.04 per cent) were among the top gainers.

While Gujarat Sidhee Cement (down 0.78 per cent), Shree Digvijay Cement (down 0.65 per cent) and Sanghi Industries (down 0.65 per cent) were among the top losers.


The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 56.90 points up at 12,094.6, while the 30share BSE Sensex was up 182.25 points at 41,003.55 at around 10:47 am.

YES Bank (up 5.07 per cent), Tata Motors (up 3.00 per cent), Mahindra & Mahindra (up 2.48 per cent), Zee Entertainment Enterprises (up 2.36 per cent) and Maruti Suzuki India (up 2.29 per cent) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Cipla (down 2.47 per cent), Larsen & Toubro (down 1.54 per cent), ICICI Bank (down 1.02 per cent), Bharti Infratel (down 0.71 per cent), Bharti Airtel (down 0.60 per cent) were trading in the red.