Stock market update: FMCG stocks down as market falls
Future Consumer Ltd.(up 5.56%), Heritage Foods Ltd.(up 3.08%), Dangee Dums Ltd.(up 1.83%), Procter & Gamble Hygiene & Healthcare Ltd.(up 1.68%), Tasty Bite Eatables Ltd.(up 1.50%), Honasa Consumer Ltd.(up 0.74%), Gillette India Ltd.(up 0.71%), ADF Foods Ltd.(up 0.59%), LT Foods Ltd.(up 0.52%) and Jyothy Labs Ltd.(up 0.26%) stood among the top gainers.
Nakoda Group Of Industries Ltd.(down 5.21%), Mrs. Bectors Food Specialities Ltd.(down 3.64%), Nestle India Ltd.(down 3.29%), Vadilal Industries Ltd.(down 2.53%), JHS Svendgaard Laboratories Ltd.(down 1.96%), Parag Milk Foods Ltd.(down 1.63%), Hindustan Foods Ltd.(down 1.41%), Umang Dairies Ltd.(down 1.36%), Bikaji Foods International Ltd.(down 1.33%) and Colgate-Palmolive(India)Ltd.(down 1.27%) were among the top losers of the day.
The NSE Nifty50 index ended 152.06 points down at 21995.85, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed down 454.69 points at 72488.99.
Bharti Airtel Ltd.(up 4.06%), Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.(up 2.14%), Bajaj Auto Ltd.(up 1.15%), LTIMindtree Ltd.(up 0.74%), Hindalco Industries Ltd.(up 0.65%), Infosys Ltd.(up 0.34%), Larsen & Toubro Ltd.(up 0.22%) and HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd.(up 0.18%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.
On the other hand, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd.(down 4.12%), Titan Company Ltd.(down 3.32%), Nestle India Ltd.(down 3.29%), Coal India Ltd.(down 3.23%), Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.(down 3.18%), Adani Enterprises Ltd.(down 2.81%), Axis Bank Ltd.(down 2.66%), NTPC Ltd.(down 2.26%), Tata
