Stock market update: Sugar stocks up as market falls
Kothari Sugars & Chemicals Ltd.(up 2.44%), Mawana Sugars Ltd.(up 2.07%), Simbhaoli Sugars Ltd.(up 1.83%), Bannari Amman Sugars Ltd.(up 1.77%), Balrampur Chini Mills Ltd.(up 1.65%), Rana Sugars Ltd.(up 1.37%), Sakthi Sugars Ltd.(up 1.36%), DCM Shriram Industries Ltd.(up 1.33%), Triveni Engineering & Industries Ltd.(up 0.84%) and KM Sugar Mills Ltd.(up 0.68%) stood among the top gainers.
Dwarikesh Sugar Industries Ltd.(down 1.17%), Dhampur Sugar Mills Ltd.(down 0.63%), Shree Renuka Sugars Ltd.(down 0.59%), Ponni Sugars(Erode)Ltd.(down 0.52%), Rajshree Sugars & Chemicals Ltd.(down 0.48%), Magadh Sugar & Energy Ltd.(down 0.18%), Uttam Sugar Mills Ltd.(down 0.15%) and Avadh Sugar & Energy Ltd.(down 0.08%) were among the top losers of the day.
The NSE Nifty50 index ended 124.6 points down at 22147.9, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed down 456.1 points at 72943.68.
Eicher Motors Ltd.(up 3.24%), Divi's Laboratories Ltd.(up 1.29%), Titan Company Ltd.(up 1.26%), Hindustan Unilever Ltd.(up 1.22%), Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.(up 1.18%), HDFC Bank Ltd.(up 0.98%), Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd.(up 0.66%), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.(up 0.65%), Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd.(up 0.51%) and Coal India Ltd.(up 0.49%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.
On the other hand, Infosys Ltd.(down 3.66%), IndusInd Bank Ltd.(down 3.18%), LTIMindtree Ltd.(down 3.17%), Wipro Ltd.(down 2.4%), Bajaj Finserv Ltd.(down 2.32%), Tech Mahindra Ltd.(down 1.89%), HCL Technologies Ltd.(down 1.85%), JSW Steel Ltd.(down 1.77%),
