Stock Market Sectors: Stock market update: FMCG stocks up as market falls

ADF Foods Ltd.(up 10.54%), Dangee Dums Ltd.(up 4.98%), Future Consumer Ltd.(up 4.26%), Vadilal Industries Ltd.(up 3.70%), Heritage Foods Ltd.(up 3.64%), Godrej Consumer Products Ltd.(up 2.82%), Nakoda Group Of Industries Ltd.(up 2.34%), Nakoda Group Of Industries Ltd.(up 2.34%), Prataap Snacks Ltd.(up 1.79%) and Britannia Industries Ltd.(up 1.72%) stood among the top gainers.

Hindustan Foods Ltd.(down 2.49%), JHS Svendgaard Laboratories Ltd.(down 2.43%), Parag Milk Foods Ltd.(down 2.42%), AWL Agri Business Ltd.(down 1.75%), Marico Ltd.(down 1.69%), Euro India Fresh Foods Ltd.(down 1.37%), Umang Dairies Ltd.(down 0.98%), Procter & Gamble Hygiene & Healthcare Ltd.(down 0.87%), Emami Ltd.(down 0.50%) and Honasa Consumer Ltd.(down 0.46%) were among the top losers of the day.

The NSE Nifty50 index ended 34.11 points down at 24716.6, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed down 77.26 points at 81373.75.

Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd.(up 2.46%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(up 1.65%), Tata Consumer Products Ltd.(up 1.28%), Eternal Ltd.(up 1.22%), Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.(up 1.14%), Hindustan Unilever Ltd.(up 1.0%), Bharat Electronics Ltd.(up 0.76%), Coal India Ltd.(up 0.61%), Bajaj Finserv Ltd.(up 0.58%) and Eicher Motors Ltd.(up 0.52%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

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On the other hand, Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(down 1.79%), Tech Mahindra Ltd.(down 1.58%), JSW Steel Ltd.(down 1.48%), HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd.(down 1.31%), Tata Steel Ltd.(down 1.23%), Tata Motors Ltd.(down 1.1%), Bajaj Auto Ltd.(down 1.09%), Grasim Industries Ltd.(down 0.86%), Titan Company Ltd.(down 0.83%) and Wipro Ltd.(down 0.8%) closed in the red.