Stock market update: FMCG stocks up as market falls

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

Parag Milk(up 10.61%), Dodla Dairy(up 6.18%), Umang Dairies(up 4.20%), Tasty Bite Eatables(up 3.94%), Marico(up 3.66%), Colgate Palmolive(India)(up 2.37%), Prataap Snacks(up 2.34%), Vadilal Industries(up 1.59%), Dabur India(up 1.38%) and Hatsun Agro Product Ltd(up 1.32%) stood among the top gainers. Heritage Foods(down 3.08%), Nakoda Group(down 2.33%), Zydus Wellness(down 1.34%), Euro India Fresh Foods(down 0.43%), Hindustan Foods(down 0.21%), Sheetal Cool Products(down 0.21%) and Adani Wilmar(down 0.20%) were among the top losers of the day.

The NSE Nifty50 index ended 13.85 points down at 19646.05, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed down 106.62 points at 66160.2. NTPC(up 3.99%), Power Grid Corporation of India(up 2.99%), Apollo Hospitals Enterprises(up 2.52%), Adani Enterprises(up 1.43%), Mahindra & Mahindra(up 1.41%), Dr Reddys Laboratories(up 1.38%), Bajaj Finance(up 1.34%), JSW Steel(up 1.31%), Hero MotoCorp(up 1.13%) and TATA CONSUMER PRODUCTS(up 1.09%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.