Stock Market Sectors: Stock market update: Fertilisers stocks up as Sensex rises

NEW DELHI: Fertilisers stocks were trading higher on Thursday at 10:14AM Khaitan Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(up 1.70%), Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(up 1.33%), National Fertilizers Ltd.(up 1.33%), Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd.(up 1.11%), Krishana Phoschem Ltd.(up 1.02%), Aries Agro Ltd.(up 0.99%), Zuari Agro Chemicals Ltd.(up 0.93%), Madhya Bharat Agro Products Ltd.(up 0.84%), Paradeep Phosphates Ltd.(up 0.83%) and Rama Phosphates Ltd.(up 0.75%) were among the top gainers.

Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd.(down 0.88%), Sikko Industries Ltd.(down 0.70%), Coromandel International Ltd.(down 0.43%) and Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(down 0.38%) were among the top losers.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 16.3 points up at 24340.75, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was up 60.33 points at 79985.1 at around 10:14AM.

Coal India Ltd.(up 2.3%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.(up 0.9%), Tata Steel Ltd.(up 0.82%), Tata Motors Ltd.(up 0.82%), State Bank of India(up 0.65%), Grasim Industries Ltd.(up 0.64%), Titan Company Ltd.(up 0.62%), HCL Technologies Ltd.(up 0.62%), Larsen & Toubro Ltd.(up 0.57%) and Adani Enterprises Ltd.(up 0.53%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Nestle India Ltd.(down 1.62%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.(down 1.29%), Cipla Ltd.(down 1.02%), Divi’s Laboratories Ltd.(down 0.97%), HDFC Bank Ltd.(down 0.88%), Bajaj Auto Ltd.(down 0.88%), Tata Consumer Products Ltd.(down 0.8%), Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.(down 0.76%), UltraTech Cement Ltd.(down 0.72%) and NTPC Ltd.(down 0.71%) were trading in the red.