Stock market update: Fertilisers stocks up as market falls
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The Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd.(up 7.82%), Khaitan Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(up 5.61%), Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(up 3.42%), Rama Phosphates Ltd.(up 3.23%), Madhya Bharat Agro Products Ltd.(up 3.07%), Gujarat State Fertilizer & Chemicals Ltd.(up 2.97%), Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(up 2.48%), Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd.(up 2.32%), National Fertilizers Ltd.(up 2.24%) and Aries Agro Ltd.(up 2.03%) stood among the top gainers.
Coromandel International Ltd.(down 1.84%), Zuari Agro Chemicals Ltd.(down 1.50%), Krishana Phoschem Ltd.(down 1.16%), Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals Ltd.(down 0.21%), Agro Phos India Ltd.(down 0.21%) and Deepak Fertilisers & Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd.(down 0.05%) were among the top losers of the day.
The NSE Nifty50 index ended 101.36 points down at 21352.6, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed down 359.64 points at 70700.67.
Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd.(up 2.3%), NTPC Ltd.(up 1.92%), Coal India Ltd.(up 1.78%), IndusInd Bank Ltd.(up 1.42%), ICICI Bank Ltd.(up 1.08%), Reliance Industries Ltd.(up 0.69%), Bajaj Finserv Ltd.(up 0.58%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(up 0.46%), JSW Steel Ltd.(up 0.44%) and Bajaj Finance Ltd.(up 0.43%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.
On the other hand, Tech Mahindra Ltd.(down 6.11%), Cipla Ltd.(down 3.37%), Bharti Airtel Ltd.(down 2.48%), LTIMindtree Ltd.(down 2.23%), SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd.(down 2.11%), Tata Consumer Products Ltd.(down 1.92%), Divi's Laboratories Ltd.(down 1.78%), Wipro Ltd.(down 1.69%), Asian Paints Ltd.(down 1.68%) and HCL Technologies Ltd.(down 1.66%) closed in the red.
