Share market update: FMCG shares mixed; Jubilant Foodworks dips over 1%

NEW DELHI: FMCG shares were trading on a mixed note in Thursday's morning session.

Shares of Tata Global Beverages (up 1.63 per cent), Hindustan Unilever (up 0.80 per cent), GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (up 0.60 per cent), and ColgatePalmolive (India) (up 0.42 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.

Jubilant Foodworks (down 1.81 per cent), Emami (down 0.90 per cent), Marico (down 0.47 per cent) and Procter & Gamble Hygiene & Healthcare (down 0.41 per cent) were trading with losses.

The Nifty FMCG index was trading 0.09 per cent up at 30,020.55 around 11:04 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 0.40 points at 11,584.70 while the BSE Sensex was up 16.94 points at 38,602.29.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 23 were trading in the green, while 27 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, DLF, Indian Oil Corp, YES Bank, Vedanta, Bharti Airtel, SAIL, Bank of Baroda, Wipro, SBI, BHEL, PowerGrid and Infosys were among the most traded shares on the NSE.