Stock market update: Fertilisers stocks down as market falls

NEW DELHI: Fertilisers stocks were trading lower on Friday at 10:19AM

Bohra Industries Ltd.(up 3.94%), Sikko Industries Ltd.(up 0.93%), Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd.(up 0.39%), Coromandel International Ltd.(up 0.31%), Madhya Bharat Agro Products Ltd.(up 0.20%) and Rama Phosphates Ltd.(up 0.11%) were among the top gainers.

Nagarjuna Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd.(down 2.84%), Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(down 2.65%), Agro Phos India Ltd.(down 1.99%), Krishana Phoschem Ltd.(down 1.87%), Zuari Agro Chemicals Ltd.(down 1.75%), The Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd.(down 1.65%), Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd.(down 1.50%), Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(down 1.46%), Khaitan Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(down 1.40%) and Gujarat State Fertilizer & Chemicals Ltd.(down 1.25%) were among the top losers.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 110.96 points down at 22642.85, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was down 421.8 points at 74616.35 at around 10:19AM.

Divi's Laboratories Ltd.(up 1.52%), Coal India Ltd.(up 1.21%), NTPC Ltd.(up 1.12%), Nestle India Ltd.(up 1.07%), Tata Motors Ltd.(up 1.05%), Bajaj Auto Ltd.(up 0.67%), Eicher Motors Ltd.(up 0.62%), LTIMindtree Ltd.(up 0.44%), SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd.(up 0.34%) and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.(up 0.31%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.(down 2.53%), JSW Steel Ltd.(down 1.69%), Titan Company Ltd.(down 1.62%), Asian Paints Ltd.(down 1.56%), HDFC Bank Ltd.(down 1.33%), ITC Ltd.(down 1.28%), Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.(down 1.08%), Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.(down 0.94%), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.(down 0.89%) and UltraTech Cement Ltd.(down 0.89%) were trading in the red.