Stock market update: Fertilisers stocks up as market rises

NEW DELHI: Fertilisers shares closed higher in the Tuesday's session.

Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers(up 6.56%), Southern Petrochemicals Industries(up 6.24%), Khaitan Chemicals & Fertilizers(up 6.12%), Agro Phos(up 5.48%), Deepak Fertilizers & Petrochemicals(up 4.99%), Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chem(up 4.60%), G S F C(up 4.41%), Madhya Bharat Agro Products(up 4.36%), Sikko Industries(up 3.95%) and Coromandel International(up 3.57%) stood among the top gainers.

National Fertilizer(down 0.30%) were among the top losers of the day.


The NSE Nifty50 index ended 509.65 points up at 17352.45, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed up 1736.21 points at 58142.05.

Tata Motors(up 6.9%), Eicher Motors(up 5.96%), Shree Cement(up 5.6%), Bajaj Finance(up 5.25%), Hero MotoCorp(up 4.91%), State Bank of India(up 4.67%), Bajaj Finserv(up 4.47%), Larsen & Toubro(up 4.28%), Grasim Industries(up 4.21%) and Titan Company Ltd(up 4.08%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Cipla(down 3.46%) and Oil & Natural Gas Corporation(down 1.23%) closed in the red.