Stock market update: FMCG stocks up as market rises

NEW DELHI: FMCG stocks were trading higher on Monday at 10:09AM

Sheetal Cool Products(up 4.96%), Parag Milk(up 3.05%), Hatsun Agro Product Ltd(up 1.97%), Tasty Bite Eatables(up 1.56%), Emami(up 1.35%), Varun Beverages(up 1.16%), Jyothy Labs(up 1.14%), ADF Foods(up 0.99%), Dangee Dums(up 0.93%) and Hindustan Foods(up 0.93%) were among the top gainers.

Britannia Industries(down 2.28%), Vadilal Industries(down 1.44%), Godrej Consumer Products(down 1.31%), Heritage Foods(down 0.14%), Dabur India(down 0.09%) and Colgate Palmolive(India)(down 0.08%) were among the top losers.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 182.0 points up at 17776.35, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was up 577.61 points at 60386.58 at around 10:09AM.

Adani Enterprises(up 12.98%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone(up 4.5%), Bajaj Finserv(up 2.07%), Power Grid Corporation of India(up 1.78%), Infosys(up 1.76%), HCL Technologies(up 1.56%), HDFC(up 1.46%), SBI Life(up 1.39%), HDFC Bank(up 1.37%) and Tata Consultancy(up 1.36%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Britannia Industries(down 2.28%), Cipla(down 0.53%) and JSW Steel(down 0.04%) were trading in the red.