Stock market update: OMCs mixed; GAIL, RIL fall over 1%

NEW DELHI: Shares of oil marketing companies (OMCs) were trading on a mixed note in afternoon trade on Friday.

The BSE Oil & Gas index was trading 0.15 per cent down at 15,110 around 02:35 pm.

Petronet LNG (down 2.48 per cent), GAIL (India) (down 1.60 per cent), Oil India (down 1.33 per cent), Reliance Industries (RIL) (down 1.02 per cent) and Indraprastha Gas (down 0.97 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

However, BPCL (up 2.32 per cent), HPCL (up 1.87 per cent), ONGC (up 0.38 per cent), Indian Oil Corporation (up 0.33 per cent) and Castrol India (up 0.32 per cent) were trading with gains, capping the fall of the sectoral index.

Benchmark BSE Sensex was 117 points down at 37,907, while the NSE Nifty50 index was down 36 points at 11,435.

In the Sensex index, 12 stocks were up, while 19 were down. Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 20 were trading in the green, while 30 were in the red.

Hero MotoCorp, Mahindra & Mahindra and ITC were leading among Sensex scrips.

However, Sun Pharma, Vedanta and Tata Motors were among the top losers in the Sensex index.