Stock market update: FMCG stocks up as market rises

NEW DELHI: FMCG stocks were trading higher on Monday at 10:09AM

Future Consumer(up 4.55%), Tasty Bite Eatables(up 3.51%), Colgate Palmolive(India)(up 3.33%), Varun Beverages(up 2.25%), Zydus Wellness(up 1.52%), Britannia Industries(up 1.22%), Parag Milk(up 1.16%), Heritage Foods(up 1.12%), Godrej Consumer Products(up 1.08%) and Hindustan Unilever(up 0.99%) were among the top gainers.

Nakoda Group(down 3.00%), Marico(down 1.14%), Adani Wilmar(down 1.12%), Emami(down 1.00%), Gillette India(down 0.88%), Patanjali Foods(down 0.84%), P & G Hygiene(down 0.72%), Prataap Snacks(down 0.45%), JHS Svendgaard Laboratories(down 0.31%) and Bajaj Consumer(down 0.29%) were among the top losers.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 63.8 points up at 18378.6, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was up 245.0 points at 62272.9 at around 10:09AM.

Tata Motors(up 3.15%), Apollo Hospitals Enterprises(up 1.77%), Eicher Motors(up 1.4%), Tech Mahindra(up 1.32%), Britannia Industries(up 1.22%), Infosys(up 1.18%), Hindustan Unilever(up 1.01%), Dr Reddys Laboratories(up 0.98%), Asian Paints(up 0.98%) and Nestle India(up 0.91%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Adani Enterprises(down 3.48%), Cipla(down 3.14%), Divis Laboratories(down 1.06%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone(down 0.77%), Maruti Suzuki(down 0.68%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries(down 0.61%), IndusInd Bank(down 0.55%), Bajaj Finance(down 0.22%), NTPC(down 0.06%) and Bajaj Finserv(down 0.02%) were trading in the red.