Stock market update: Fertilisers stocks down as market falls

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

were among the top gainers.

Madras Fertilizers Ltd.(down 7.68%), Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(down 7.10%), National Fertilizers Ltd.(down 7.03%), The Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd.(down 6.95%), Agro Phos India Ltd.(down 6.82%), Deepak Fertilisers & Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd.(down 5.92%), Aries Agro Ltd.(down 5.77%), Zuari Agro Chemicals Ltd.(down 5.51%), Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals Ltd.(down 5.10%) and Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd.(down 5.09%) were among the top losers.
The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 243.71 points down at 24189.5, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was down 817.01 points at 79534.63 at around 10:39AM.
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.(up 1.69%), Britannia Industries Ltd.(up 1.14%) and Hindustan Unilever Ltd.(up 0.09%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(down 6.81%), Shriram Finance Ltd.(down 2.81%), Hindalco Industries Ltd.(down 2.78%), Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.(down 2.66%), Coal India Ltd.(down 2.5%), Tata Steel Ltd.(down 2.49%), Tata Motors Ltd.(down 2.38%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.(down 2.12%), HCL Technologies Ltd.(down 2.04%) and Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(down 1.89%) were trading in the red.