Stock market update: FMCG stocks down as market falls

NEW DELHI: FMCG stocks were trading lower on Friday at 10:31AM

JHS Svendgaard Laboratories Ltd.(up 2.36%), Nakoda Group Of Industries Ltd.(up 1.28%), Nakoda Group Of Industries Ltd.(up 1.28%), Gopal Snacks Ltd.(up 1.17%), LT Foods Ltd.(up 0.59%), AWL Agri Business Ltd.(up 0.44%), Hindustan Foods Ltd.(up 0.36%), Sheetal Cool Products Ltd.(up 0.18%), Britannia Industries Ltd.(up 0.09%) and Prataap Snacks Ltd.(up 0.03%) were among the top gainers.

Honasa Consumer Ltd.(down 2.73%), Parag Milk Foods Ltd.(down 2.25%), Dodla Dairy Ltd.(down 2.13%), Patanjali Foods Ltd.(down 2.06%), Vadilal Industries Ltd.(down 1.94%), Mrs. Bectors Food Specialities Ltd.(down 1.89%), Procter & Gamble Hygiene & Healthcare Ltd.(down 1.39%), Bajaj Consumer Care Ltd.(down 1.34%), Bikaji Foods International Ltd.(down 1.17%) and Dangee Dums Ltd.(down 1.11%) were among the top losers.


The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 82.9 points down at 24750.7, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was down 251.16 points at 81381.86 at around 10:31AM.

Eternal Ltd.(up 1.66%), Bajaj Finserv Ltd.(up 0.51%), Larsen & Toubro Ltd.(up 0.34%), HDFC Bank Ltd.(up 0.2%), Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd.(up 0.18%), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.(up 0.17%), ICICI Bank Ltd.(up 0.16%) and Reliance Industries Ltd.(up 0.04%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Bajaj Auto Ltd.(down 2.55%), Hindalco Industries Ltd.(down 2.27%), Shriram Finance Ltd.(down 1.87%), Infosys Ltd.(down 1.63%), Tech Mahindra Ltd.(down 1.6%), Tata Motors Ltd.(down 1.58%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(down 1.53%), IndusInd Bank Ltd.(down 1.31%), Tata Steel Ltd.(down 1.24%) and JSW Steel Ltd.(down 1.12%) were trading in the red.