Stock market update: FMCG stocks up as market rises

NEW DELHI: FMCG shares closed higher in the Monday's session.

Future Consumer(up 10.00%), Heritage Foods(up 8.01%), Sheetal Cool Products(up 7.13%), Mrs Bectors Food Specialities(up 6.94%), Parag Milk(up 6.46%), Dodla Dairy(up 5.39%), P & G Hygiene(up 5.19%), Hindustan Foods(up 5.00%), Nakoda Group(up 4.92%) and Tasty Bite Eatables(up 3.31%) stood among the top gainers.

Vadilal Industries(down 4.52%), Hatsun Agro Product Ltd(down 1.61%), ADF Foods(down 1.53%), Gillette India(down 1.18%), Jyothy Labs(down 1.05%), Hindustan Unilever(down 0.95%), Umang Dairies(down 0.51%), Godrej Consumer Products(down 0.38%), Euro India Fresh Foods(down 0.34%) and Marico(down 0.02%) were among the top losers of the day.

The NSE Nifty50 index ended 38.3 points up at 17398.05, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed up 114.92 points at 59106.44.

Hero MotoCorp(up 3.57%), Coal India(up 3.04%), Bajaj Auto(up 2.81%), Maruti Suzuki(up 2.54%), Eicher Motors(up 1.88%), Divis Laboratories(up 1.82%), Bajaj Finance(up 1.75%), Oil & Natural Gas Corporation(up 1.72%), UPL Ltd(up 1.67%) and Bharti Airtel(up 1.54%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Bharat Petroleum Corporation(down 4.17%), Adani Enterprises(down 1.89%), Apollo Hospitals Enterprises(down 1.78%), ITC(down 1.2%), Infosys(down 1.2%), Cipla(down 1.0%), Hindustan Unilever(down 0.95%), JSW Steel(down 0.86%), Hindalco Industries(down 0.69%) and Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone(down 0.65%) closed in the red.