NEW DELHI: The S&P BSE Fast Moving Consumer Goods index was trading 0.41 per cent down at 10,255 around 12:35 pm (IST) on Thursday, with shares of Heritage Foods (down 5.56 per cent), United Breweries (down 5.23 per cent), Pincon Spirit (down 4.97 per cent) and Sanwaria Consumer (down 4.94 per cent) as the top losers.

Shares of Pioneer Distilleries (down 3.88 per cent), Gujarat Ambuja Exports (down 3.37 per cent), Future Consumer (down 2.54 per cent), Balrampur Chini Mills (down 1.84 per cent), ITC (down 1.71 per cent), Parag Milk Foods (down 1.67 per cent), Advanced Enzyme Technologies (down 1.28 per cent) and Tata Coffee (down 1.28 per cent) were also in the red around that time.

However, shares of Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation (up 5.53 per cent), Lakshmi Energy & Foods (up 5.50 per cent), Cupid (up 5.13 per cent), DFM Foods (up 3.69 per cent) and DCM Shriram Industries (up 3.51 per cent) were trading up.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was 24 points down at 10,279, while the BSE Sensex was 66 points down at 33,153.

Among the 51 stocks in the Nifty50 index, 19 were trading in the green, while 31 were in the red.

Asian Paints, ICICI Bank, Reliance Industries, Hindustan Unilever, NTPC, Adani Ports and Bharti Airtel were the top gainers in the Sensex index.

On the other hand, Oil & Natural Gas Corporation, HDFC, ITC, Axis Bank, Coal India, Sun Pharma, Lupin and Power Grid Corporation were the top losers.