Stock market update: Sugar stocks up as market rises

NEW DELHI: Sugar stocks were trading higher on Friday at 11:05AM

DCM Shriram Industries Ltd.(up 3.75%), Magadh Sugar & Energy Ltd.(up 2.42%), KM Sugar Mills Ltd.(up 2.27%), Shree Renuka Sugars Ltd.(up 2.08%), Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar Ltd.(up 1.68%), KCP Sugar & Industries Corporation Ltd.(up 1.43%), Kothari Sugars & Chemicals Ltd.(up 1.41%), Simbhaoli Sugars Ltd.(up 1.34%), Vishwaraj Sugar Industries Ltd.(up 0.99%) and Rana Sugars Ltd.(up 0.96%) were among the top gainers.

Rajshree Sugars & Chemicals Ltd.(down 0.84%) and Bannari Amman Sugars Ltd.(down 0.71%) were among the top losers.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 44.96 points up at 22056.9, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was up 123.74 points at 72764.93 at around 11:05AM.

Bajaj Auto Ltd.(up 2.28%), Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd.(up 2.05%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.(up 2.04%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.(up 1.79%), Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(up 1.51%), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.(up 1.32%), UPL Ltd.(up 1.22%), Titan Company Ltd.(up 1.22%), Hindalco Industries Ltd.(up 1.08%) and ITC Ltd.(up 1.07%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, LTIMindtree Ltd.(down 2.62%), Wipro Ltd.(down 2.62%), HCL Technologies Ltd.(down 2.37%), Infosys Ltd.(down 2.2%), Tech Mahindra Ltd.(down 1.14%), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.(down 1.09%), Divi's Laboratories Ltd.(down 0.74%), Tata Consumer Products Ltd.(down 0.65%), Bajaj Finserv Ltd.(down 0.54%) and Nestle India Ltd.(down 0.5%) were trading in the red.