NEW DELHI: FMCG shares were trading lower in Tuesday's session.

Shares of ITC (down 1.76 per cent) , United Spirits (down 1.53 per cent) , Emami (down 1.49 per cent) , P & G Hygiene (down 1.1 per cent) , Dabur India (down 0.97 per cent) , VBL (down 0.95 per cent) , TATA CONSUMER PRODUCTS (down 0.91 per cent) , Jubilant Foodworks (down 0.63 per cent) , United Breweries (down 0.56 per cent) , Britannia Industries (down 0.51 per cent) and Colgate Palmolive (India) (down 0.32 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

The Nifty FMCG index was trading 0.46 per cent down at 28570.95 around 02:15PM.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 49.60 points at 9863.3, while the BSE Sensex was up 195.66 points at 33424.46.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 21 were trading in the green, while 29 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, Tata Motors, Axis Bank, SBI, BHEL, PNB, ICICI Bank, SAIL, IndusInd Bank and Bank of Baroda were among the most traded shares on the NSE.