Stock market update: Power stocks down as market rises
Power and Instrumentation(Gujarat)Ltd.(up 5.00%), RattanIndia Power Ltd.(up 4.99%), KEC International Ltd.(up 4.93%), Neueon Towers Ltd.(up 4.75%), GE T&D India Ltd.(up 4.61%), Indowind Energy Ltd.(up 3.39%), Hitachi Energy India Ltd.(up 3.26%), Jaiprakash Power Ventures Ltd.(up 1.87%), JSW Energy Ltd.(up 1.42%) and Gujarat Industries Power Company Ltd.(up 1.20%) stood among the top gainers.
Indo Tech Transformers Ltd.(down 3.42%), Voltamp Transformers Ltd.(down 2.93%), Kalpataru Projects International Ltd.(down 2.38%), India Power Corporation Ltd.(down 2.35%), Inox Wind Ltd.(down 2.22%), Energy Development Company Ltd.(down 1.80%), KPI Green Energy Ltd.(down 1.65%), Adani Green Energy Ltd.(down 1.64%), Reliance Power Ltd.(down 1.46%) and NLC India Ltd.(down 1.20%) were among the top losers of the day.
The NSE Nifty50 index ended 75.96 points up at 23398.9, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed up 204.33 points at 76810.9.
Shriram Finance Ltd.(up 4.58%), HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd.(up 3.64%), Divi's Laboratories Ltd.(up 3.18%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(up 2.67%), Titan Company Ltd.(up 2.66%), Larsen & Toubro Ltd.(up 2.03%), LTIMindtree Ltd.(up 1.95%), IndusInd Bank Ltd.(up 1.55%), Tech Mahindra Ltd.(up 1.34%) and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.(up 1.22%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.
On the other hand, Hindustan Unilever Ltd.(down 1.64%), Axis Bank Ltd.(down 1.12%), Britannia Industries Ltd.(down 1.11%), ICICI Bank Ltd.(down 1.09%), Eicher Motors Ltd.(down 1.02%), Power Grid Corporation of
