Stock market update: Rajesh Exports, VIP Industries consumer durables index up

NEW DELHI: Gains in Rajesh Exports (up 4.40 per cent), PC Jeweller (up 3.91 per cent), VIP Industries (up 2.41 per cent) and TTK Prestige (up 2.37 per cent) were keeping the consumer durables index up in Monday's afternoon session.

The BSE Consumer Durables index was trading 0.75 per cent up at 22,113 around 01:30 pm.

Shares of Whirlpool of India (up 0.80 per cent), Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals (up 0.41 per cent), Voltas (up 0.17 per cent) and Titan Company (up 0.13 per cent) too were in the green.

However, Symphony (down 1.17 per cent) and Blue Star (down 0.83 per cent) were in the red around that time.

Benchmark BSE Sensex was 117 points down at 37,753, while the NSE Nifty50 index was down 34 points at 11,396.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 21 were trading in the green, while 29 were in the red.

In the Sensex index, 15 stocks were advancing, while 16 were incurring losses.

Mahindra & Mahindra, Coal India, Sun Pharma and Infosys were leading among Sensex gainers.

However, Vedanta, State Bank of India, YES Bank and HDFC Bank were among the top losers in the Sensex index.