Stock market update: FMCG stocks up as market rises
Mrs. Bectors Food Specialities Ltd.(up 5.80%), Godrej Consumer Products Ltd.(up 2.93%), Vadilal Industries Ltd.(up 2.44%), Colgate-Palmolive(India)Ltd.(up 2.15%), Nakoda Group Of Industries Ltd.(up 1.96%), Heritage Foods Ltd.(up 1.70%), Emami Ltd.(up 1.43%), Patanjali Foods Ltd.(up 1.43%), Tasty Bite Eatables Ltd.(up 1.41%) and Prataap Snacks Ltd.(up 1.24%) stood among the top gainers.
Tata Consumer Products Ltd.(down 5.39%), Future Consumer Ltd.(down 5.27%), Dodla Dairy Ltd.(down 2.30%), Honasa Consumer Ltd.(down 2.30%), ADF Foods Ltd.(down 1.87%), Sheetal Cool Products Ltd.(down 1.69%), Umang Dairies Ltd.(down 1.44%), Parag Milk Foods Ltd.(down 1.43%), Gillette India Ltd.(down 0.81%) and Bajaj Consumer Care Ltd.(down 0.44%) were among the top losers of the day.
The NSE Nifty50 index ended 34.41 points up at 22402.4, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed up 114.49 points at 73852.94.
Hindalco Industries Ltd.(up 3.98%), Cipla Ltd.(up 3.83%), JSW Steel Ltd.(up 3.69%), Tata Steel Ltd.(up 2.74%), Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.(up 1.77%), Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.(up 1.65%), Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd.(up 1.43%), UltraTech Cement Ltd.(up 1.32%), NTPC Ltd.(up 1.3%) and Divi's Laboratories Ltd.(up 1.2%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.
On the other hand, Tata Consumer Products Ltd.(down 5.39%), Grasim Industries Ltd.(down 1.37%), Tech Mahindra Ltd.(down 1.22%), HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd.(down 1.16%), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.(down 1.13%), Bajaj Auto Ltd.(down 1.13%), Infosys
