Stock market update: Sugar stocks up as market rises
Vishwaraj Sugar Industries(up 1.89%), Dhampur Sugar Mills(up 0.95%), Simbhaoli Sugars(up 0.91%), KCP Sugar & Industries(up 0.78%), Dwarikesh Sugar Industries(up 0.70%), Rajshree Sugars & Chemicals(up 0.63%), AVADHSUGAR(up 0.58%), Rana Sugars(up 0.20%), K.M.Sugar Mills(up 0.18%) and Balrampur Chini Mills(up 0.17%) were among the top gainers.
DCM Shriram Industries(down 1.30%), BAJAJHIND(down 1.22%), Dharani Sugars & Chemicals(down 1.16%), Mawana Sugars(down 1.14%), EID Parry(down 0.76%), Shree Renuka Sugars(down 0.67%), Ponni Sugars(Erode)(down 0.41%), Ugar Sugar Works(down 0.39%), Sakthi Sugars(down 0.38%) and Triveni Engineering & Industries(down 0.10%) were among the top losers.
The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 43.1 points up at 18606.5, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was up 136.37 points at 62762.0 at around 10:40AM.
HCL Technologies(up 1.93%), SBI Life(up 1.72%), Infosys(up 1.58%), HDFC LIFE INSURANCE(up 1.42%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation(up 1.34%), Nestle India(up 1.12%), NTPC(up 1.12%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone(up 1.07%), Tech Mahindra(up 1.05%) and Bharti Airtel(up 0.99%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.
On the other hand, Titan Company Ltd(down 1.05%), Larsen & Toubro(down 0.87%), Asian Paints(down 0.64%), IndusInd Bank(down 0.5%), Maruti Suzuki(down 0.5%), UltraTech Cement(down 0.37%), UPL Ltd(down 0.33%), Eicher Motors(down 0.32%), Divis Laboratories(down 0.29%) and HDFC Bank(down 0.29%) were trading in the red.