Stock Market Sectors: Stock Market Update: Fertilizer Stocks Fall, Market Rising

NEW DELHI: Fertilizer stocks traded lower at 11:05 am on Monday

Top gainers included Deepak Fertilisers & Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd. (up 0.97%), Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd. (up 0.62%), Krishana Phoschem Ltd. (up 0.61%), Paradeep Phosphates Ltd. (up 0.54%), Rama Phosphates Ltd. (up 0.23%), Coromandel International Ltd. (up 0.10%), Gujarat State Fertilizer & Chemicals Ltd. (up 0.03%) and National Fertilizers Ltd. (up 0.02%).

Top losers included Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd. (down 2.15%), Khaitan Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd. (down 1.84%), Aries Agro Ltd. (down 1.63%), Nagarjuna Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd. (down 1.60%), Agro Phos India Ltd. (down 1.41%), Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd. (down 1.34%), Sikko Industries Ltd. (down 1.10%), Madras Fertilizers Ltd. (down 1.01%), Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd. (down 0.77%) and Zuari Agro Chemicals Ltd. (down 0.77%).

The NSE Nifty50 index was up 76.95 points at 24,579.1, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was up 197.61 points at 80,716.95 at around 11:05 am.

Top gainers on the Nifty included Shriram Finance Ltd. (up 2.25%), Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (up 1.99%), NTPC Ltd. (up 1.83%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (up 1.6%), State Bank of India (up 1.49%), Bajaj Auto Ltd. (up 1.47%), UltraTech Cement Ltd. (up 1.3%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (up 1.17%), Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. (up 1.13%) and Tata Motors Ltd. (up 0.96%). On the other hand, Asian Paints Ltd. (down 1.2%), Grasim Industries Ltd. (down 1.12%), LTIMindtree Ltd. (down 0.93%), Tata Steel Ltd. (down 0.66%), Reliance Industries Ltd. (down 0.56%), Titan Company Ltd. (down 0.46%), Bajaj Finserv Ltd. (down 0.42%), Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (down 0.14%), Axis Bank Ltd. (down 0.12%) and Tech Mahindra Ltd. (down 0.05%) were trading in the red.