Stock market update: Fertilisers stocks down as market falls

NEW DELHI: Fertilisers stocks were trading lower on Friday at 10:39AM

Deepak Fertilisers & Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd.(up 2.85%), The Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd.(up 0.80%), Madras Fertilizers Ltd.(up 0.70%), National Fertilizers Ltd.(up 0.60%), Rama Phosphates Ltd.(up 0.47%), Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(up 0.42%), Gujarat State Fertilizer & Chemicals Ltd.(up 0.28%), Coromandel International Ltd.(up 0.26%), Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals Ltd.(up 0.24%) and Paradeep Phosphates Ltd.(up 0.13%) were among the top gainers.

Sikko Industries Ltd.(down 2.44%), Krishana Phoschem Ltd.(down 1.44%), Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd.(down 1.41%), Zuari Agro Chemicals Ltd.(down 0.78%), Nagarjuna Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd.(down 0.73%), Madhya Bharat Agro Products Ltd.(down 0.69%), Khaitan Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(down 0.66%), Aries Agro Ltd.(down 0.62%), Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd.(down 0.32%) and Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(down 0.28%) were among the top losers.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 58.96 points down at 24243.2, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was down 304.48 points at 79745.19 at around 10:39AM.

Divi's Laboratories Ltd.(up 2.64%), Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.(up 2.32%), Cipla Ltd.(up 2.01%), Larsen & Toubro Ltd.(up 1.72%), Hindalco Industries Ltd.(up 1.4%), Reliance Industries Ltd.(up 1.38%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.(up 1.14%), State Bank of India(up 1.14%), JSW Steel Ltd.(up 1.12%) and Eicher Motors Ltd.(up 0.96%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, HDFC Bank Ltd.(down 4.54%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(down 1.75%), Titan Company Ltd.(down 1.66%), Tata Steel Ltd.(down 0.57%), UltraTech Cement Ltd.(down 0.53%), IndusInd Bank Ltd.(down 0.38%), Bajaj Finserv Ltd.(down 0.38%), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.(down 0.27%), ICICI Bank Ltd.(down 0.27%) and HCL Technologies Ltd.(down 0.14%) were trading in the red.