Stock market update: FMCG stocks down as market falls

NEW DELHI: FMCG stocks were trading lower on Friday at 11:15AM

Mrs. Bectors Food Specialities Ltd.(up 2.26%), Umang Dairies Ltd.(up 1.85%), Bikaji Foods International Ltd.(up 0.78%), Prataap Snacks Ltd.(up 0.41%), Hindustan Unilever Ltd.(up 0.24%), Heritage Foods Ltd.(up 0.20%), Honasa Consumer Ltd.(up 0.20%) and Zydus Wellness Ltd.(up 0.10%) were among the top gainers.

JHS Svendgaard Laboratories Ltd.(down 2.00%), Patanjali Foods Ltd.(down 1.97%), Dangee Dums Ltd.(down 1.80%), Sheetal Cool Products Ltd.(down 1.74%), Tata Consumer Products Ltd.(down 1.68%), Tasty Bite Eatables Ltd.(down 1.65%), Vadilal Industries Ltd.(down 1.62%), Jyothy Labs Ltd.(down 1.56%), Parag Milk Foods Ltd.(down 1.47%) and Emami Ltd.(down 1.42%) were among the top losers.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 122.65 points down at 21873.2, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was down 357.92 points at 72131.07 at around 11:15AM.

Grasim Industries Ltd.(up 1.15%), ITC Ltd.(up 0.98%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(up 0.6%), HDFC Bank Ltd.(up 0.58%), Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd.(up 0.45%), Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.(up 0.39%), Bharti Airtel Ltd.(up 0.38%), ICICI Bank Ltd.(up 0.35%), Hindustan Unilever Ltd.(up 0.19%) and Wipro Ltd.(up 0.07%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Bajaj Auto Ltd.(down 3.36%), Tata Motors Ltd.(down 2.64%), Axis Bank Ltd.(down 2.35%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.(down 2.27%), Hindalco Industries Ltd.(down 1.91%), Larsen & Toubro Ltd.(down 1.72%), Tata Consumer Products Ltd.(down 1.68%), Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(down 1.68%), Eicher Motors Ltd.(down 1.62%) and Coal India Ltd.(down 1.58%) were trading in the red.