Stock market update: Sugar stocks advance; Bannari Amman Sugars rises over 7%

NEW DEHLI: Shares of sugar prodcuers were trading with gains in Friday's morning session.

Shares of Bannari Amman Sugars (up 7.58 per cent), Rajshree Sugars & Chemicals (up 4.92 per cent), Dalmia Bharat Sugar & Industries (up 2.05 per cent) gained up to 8 per cent.

Piccadily Agro Industries (up 1.99 per cent), Dhampur Sugar Mills (up 1.54 per cent) and Magadh Sugar (up 1.53 per cent) too were among the top gainers.


Sakthi Sugars (down 3.67 per cent), Bajaj Hindustan Sugar (down 1.93 per cent) and EID Parry (down 1.92 per cent) were among the top losers.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 22.35 points up at 10,727.15, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was up 108.91 points at 36,202.38 at around 09:37 am.

YES Bank (up 3.23 per cent), Indiabulls Housing Finance (up 2.37 per cent), HDFC Bank (up 1.68 per cent), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone (up 1.62 per cent) and Hero MotoCorp (up 1.29 per cent) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Zee Entertainment Enterprises (down 8.84 per cent), NTPC (down 1.89 per cent), Power Grid Corporation of India (down 1.72 per cent) and Coal India (down 1.27 per cent) were trading in the red.