Stock market update: FMCG stocks up as market falls

NEW DELHI: FMCG stocks were trading higher on Tuesday at 10:19AM

Hind.Foods(up 4.39%), Parag Milk(up 3.36%), Heritage Foods(up 2.79%), Mrs Bectors Food Specialities(up 2.56%), Varun Beverages(up 2.22%), Tasty Bite Eatables(up 2.13%), Zydus Wellness(up 1.58%), Vadilal Industries(up 1.57%), Dodla Dairy(up 1.49%) and Dangee Dums(up 1.43%) were among the top gainers.

Euro India Fresh Foods(down 1.28%), Nakoda Group(down 0.79%) and Colgate Palmolive(India)(down 0.55%) were among the top losers.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 13.45 points up at 17187.1, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was down 35.75 points at 57130.99 at around 10:19AM.

Apollo Hospitals Enterprises(up 4.08%), Reliance Industries(up 2.21%), Coal India(up 2.19%), Eicher Motors(up 2.17%), JSW Steel(up 1.61%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation(up 1.6%), Hindalco Industries(up 1.59%), Tata Steel(up 1.58%), UPL Ltd(up 1.4%) and UltraTech Cement(up 1.24%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, HDFC(down 3.18%), HDFC Bank(down 2.41%), Infosys(down 1.13%), Larsen & Toubro(down 0.84%), Kotak Mahindra Bank(down 0.65%), SBI Life(down 0.49%), Divis Laboratories(down 0.48%), Bharti Airtel(down 0.4%), Dr Reddys Laboratories(down 0.39%) and HDFC LIFE INSURANCE(down 0.3%) were trading in the red.