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SI Reporter  | New Delhi 

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(Photo: Kamlesh Pednekar)
(Photo: Kamlesh Pednekar)
The Indian were trading half a per cent lower, dragged down primarily by FMCG stocks, on Thursday.

The S&P BSE Sensex slipped 220 points to 31,470 levels and the Nifty50 hovered around 9,210 level. Among individual stocks, surged 20 per cent after reporting net profit of Rs 2,629 in the March quarter. HCL Tech also gained 3 per cent after reporting its Q4 numbers.

slipped 5 per cent in early deals after the company's 4.23 per cent equity changed hands in block deal. As per report, UK-based GSK was to offload shares worth Rs 26,000 crore in the FMGC major. READ MORE

Nifty sectoral trends were mixed. Nifty FMCG index, down 1.5 per cent, bled the most.

The broader indices fared better than their benchmark peers. The S&P BSE MidCap and SmallCap indexes were both up 0.2 per cent.

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A total of nine companies including RBL Bank are scheduled to announce their March quarter earnings today.

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