Stock market update: Sugar stocks up as market rises

NEW DELHI: Sugar stocks were trading higher on Thursday at 10:39AM

Kothari Sugars & Chemicals Ltd.(up 7.38%), Rana Sugars Ltd.(up 6.27%), DCM Shriram Industries Ltd.(up 5.13%), Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar Ltd.(up 5.03%), Sakthi Sugars Ltd.(up 4.91%), Vishwaraj Sugar Industries Ltd.(up 4.66%), Ugar Sugar Works Ltd.(up 4.50%), Triveni Engineering & Industries Ltd.(up 4.20%), KCP Sugar & Industries Corporation Ltd.(up 4.17%) and Ponni Sugars(Erode)Ltd.(up 4.13%) were among the top gainers.

were among the top losers.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 54.6 points up at 22052.3, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was up 100.31 points at 72862.2 at around 10:39AM.

Adani Enterprises Ltd.(up 3.71%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd.(up 3.3%), Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(up 2.42%), Hindalco Industries Ltd.(up 2.14%), Larsen & Toubro Ltd.(up 1.71%), Grasim Industries Ltd.(up 1.68%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(up 1.67%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.(up 1.65%), Bharti Airtel Ltd.(up 1.43%) and Infosys Ltd.(up 1.26%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, JSW Steel Ltd.(down 2.9%), Tata Steel Ltd.(down 1.81%), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.(down 0.9%), HDFC Bank Ltd.(down 0.84%), State Bank of India(down 0.79%), Tata Motors Ltd.(down 0.75%), LTIMindtree Ltd.(down 0.63%), Axis Bank Ltd.(down 0.59%), Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd.(down 0.53%) and Titan Company Ltd.(down 0.53%) were trading in the red.