The Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd.(up 7.66%), National Fertilizers Ltd.(up 7.30%), Madras Fertilizers Ltd.(up 7.07%), Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(up 6.84%), Deepak Fertilisers & Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd.(up 6.73%), Khaitan Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(up 5.00%), Nagarjuna Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd.(up 4.91%), Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd.(up 4.75%), Gujarat State Fertilizer & Chemicals Ltd.(up 4.40%) and Zuari Agro Chemicals Ltd.(up 3.99%) were among the top gainers.
Bohra Industries Ltd.(down 2.02%) were among the top losers.
The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 81.0 points down at 24635.6, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was down 301.15 points at 81072.6 at around 10:04AM.
Eternal Ltd.(up 1.29%), Shriram Finance Ltd.(up 0.89%), Hindalco Industries Ltd.(up 0.62%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(up 0.57%), Grasim Industries Ltd.(up 0.35%), HDFC Bank Ltd.(up 0.21%), Tata Steel Ltd.(up 0.17%), State Bank of India(up 0.04%), Bharat Electronics Ltd.(up 0.04%) and Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(up 0.03%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.
On the other hand, Coal India Ltd.(down 1.56%), Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd.(down 1.13%), Larsen & Toubro Ltd.(down 1.04%), Bajaj Finance Ltd.(down 0.98%), Tech Mahindra Ltd.(down 0.96%), Hindustan Unilever Ltd.(down 0.95%), ICICI Bank Ltd.(down 0.9%), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.(down 0.89%), UltraTech Cement Ltd.(down 0.85%) and Bajaj Finserv Ltd.(down 0.79%) were trading in the red.