Stock market update: Sugar stocks down as market falls

NEW DELHI: Sugar stocks were trading lower on Friday at 10:36AM

Mawana Sugars Ltd.(up 1.25%), EID Parry(India)Ltd.(up 0.86%), Rana Sugars Ltd.(up 0.19%) and Bannari Amman Sugars Ltd.(up 0.04%) were among the top gainers.

Kothari Sugars & Chemicals Ltd.(down 4.63%), DCM Shriram Industries Ltd.(down 3.79%), Simbhaoli Sugars Ltd.(down 3.38%), Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar Ltd.(down 2.43%), Avadh Sugar & Energy Ltd.(down 2.34%), Shree Renuka Sugars Ltd.(down 2.14%), Ponni Sugars(Erode)Ltd.(down 1.73%), Triveni Engineering & Industries Ltd.(down 1.65%), Rajshree Sugars & Chemicals Ltd.(down 1.54%) and Uttam Sugar Mills Ltd.(down 1.49%) were among the top losers.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 96.8 points down at 24736.8, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was down 291.37 points at 81341.65 at around 10:36AM.

Eternal Ltd.(up 1.91%), Bajaj Finserv Ltd.(up 0.46%), Larsen & Toubro Ltd.(up 0.37%), Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd.(up 0.11%), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.(up 0.07%), HDFC Bank Ltd.(up 0.07%) and Reliance Industries Ltd.(up 0.01%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Bajaj Auto Ltd.(down 2.59%), Hindalco Industries Ltd.(down 2.34%), Shriram Finance Ltd.(down 1.88%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(down 1.68%), Tata Motors Ltd.(down 1.63%), Infosys Ltd.(down 1.62%), Tech Mahindra Ltd.(down 1.52%), IndusInd Bank Ltd.(down 1.38%), Tata Steel Ltd.(down 1.28%) and NTPC Ltd.(down 1.17%) were trading in the red.