Stock market update: Sugar stocks advance; Dhampure Specialty Sugars jumps 5%

NEW DELHI: Shares of sugar producers were trading in the green in Wednesday's morning trade.

Shares of Dhampure Specialty Sugars (up 4.98 per cent), Magadh Sugar (up 4.78 per cent), Balrampur Chini Mills (up 1.51 per cent), Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar (up 1.46 per cent) and EID Parry (up 1.44 per cent) gained up to 5 per cent.

KM Sugar Mills (up 1.30 per cent), Dalmia Bharat Sugar & Industries (up 1.26 per cent) and Rana Sugars (up 1.19 per cent) too were among the top gainers.


While Indian Sucrose (down 5.00 per cent), Piccadily Agro Industries (down 2.35 per cent) and Triveni Engineering & Industries (down 1.58 per cent) were among the top losers.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 6.20 points up at 10,823.8, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was up 54.16 points at 36,535.25 around 10:00 am.

Bajaj Finance (up 2.61 per cent), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (up 2.18 per cent), Bajaj Finserv (up 1.94 per cent), Kotak Mahindra Bank (up 1.43 per cent) and Reliance Industries (up 1.03 per cent) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Britannia Industries (down 2.85 per cent), UPL (down 2.74 per cent), Maruti Suzuki India (down 1.56 per cent), Eicher Motors (down 1.24 per cent) and Coal India (down 1.06 per cent) were trading in the red.