Market Now: BSE Oil & Gas index down 3%; Petronet LNG, HPCL crack 4%

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Updated: Feb 06, 2018, 12.16 PM IST
Market Now: BSE Oil & Gas index down 3%; Petronet LNG, HPCL crack 4%
Shares of major refiner Reliance Industries were down nearly 3 per cent.
NEW DELHI: The BSE Oil & Gas index was trading 2.68 per cent down at 15,252 around 12:05 pm (IST) on Tuesday with shares of GAIL (India) (down 4.37 per cent) as the top loser.

Shares of Petronet LNG (down 3.96 per cent), Castrol India (down 3.73 per cent), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (down 3.59 per cent), Indraprastha Gas (down 3.19 per cent), Reliance Industries (down 2.88 per cent), Indian Oil Corporation (down 2.29 per cent), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (down 1.99 per cent) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation (down 1.65 per cent) were also down in the index.

Oil India (up 2.30 per cent) was the only stock that was trading up in the oil & gas index around that time.

Benchmark BSE Sensex was 1,039 points down at 33,719, while the NSE Nifty50 index was 313 points down at 10,353.

All components in the Nifty50 and Sensex index were in the red.

Shares of Tata Motors plunged over 6 per cent in the Sensex index. Axis Bank, YES Bank and HDFC Bank were also the top losers in the Sensex kitty of stocks.

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