Stock market update: Fertilisers stocks up as market rises

NEW DELHI: Fertilisers stocks were trading higher on Thursday at 11:15AM

Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(up 1.87%), Sikko Industries Ltd.(up 1.75%), Khaitan Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(up 1.62%), Nagarjuna Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd.(up 1.44%), Gujarat State Fertilizer & Chemicals Ltd.(up 0.90%), Madhya Bharat Agro Products Ltd.(up 0.80%), The Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd.(up 0.77%), Krishana Phoschem Ltd.(up 0.61%), Coromandel International Ltd.(up 0.61%) and Madras Fertilizers Ltd.(up 0.59%) were among the top gainers.

Paradeep Phosphates Ltd.(down 1.15%), Deepak Fertilisers & Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd.(down 0.49%), Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(down 0.33%), Aries Agro Ltd.(down 0.32%), Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals Ltd.(down 0.26%), Zuari Agro Chemicals Ltd.(down 0.18%), Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd.(down 0.12%) and Rama Phosphates Ltd.(down 0.05%) were among the top losers.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 44.55 points up at 23367.5, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was up 174.98 points at 76781.55 at around 11:15AM.

HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd.(up 3.29%), Divi's Laboratories Ltd.(up 3.28%), LTIMindtree Ltd.(up 2.14%), Tech Mahindra Ltd.(up 1.82%), Shriram Finance Ltd.(up 1.59%), Wipro Ltd.(up 1.41%), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.(up 1.37%), Larsen & Toubro Ltd.(up 1.26%), Titan Company Ltd.(up 0.85%) and Nestle India Ltd.(up 0.79%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Hindustan Unilever Ltd.(down 1.32%), Eicher Motors Ltd.(down 1.14%), Tata Consumer Products Ltd.(down 1.08%), Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.(down 0.93%), JSW Steel Ltd.(down 0.92%), Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(down 0.89%), Coal India Ltd.(down 0.79%), Grasim Industries Ltd.(down 0.72%), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.(down 0.64%) and Bharti Airtel Ltd.(down 0.59%) were trading in the red.