NEW DELHI: The S&P BSE Consumer Durables index was up in Thursday's afternoon session with its components trading higher.

Shares of VIP Industries (up 1.75 per cent), Blue Star (up 1.44 per cent), Titan Company (up 1.09 per cent) were the top performers in the index.

Rajesh Exports (up 0.46 per cent), Voltas (up 0.12 per cent) and Whirlpool of India (up 0.08 per cent) too were trading higher.

The S&P BSE Consumer Durables index was trading 0.43 per cent up at 25,232.22 around 12:04 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 57.85 points at 11,963.80 while the BSE Sensex was down 130.18 points at 39,953.36.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 16 were trading in the green, while 34 were in the red.

Shares of DHFL, YES Bank, Suzlon Energy, Vodafone Idea, Reliance Capital, BHEL, Bank of Baroda, PC Jeweller, GMR Infra and IDBI Bank were among the most traded securities on the NSE.