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

ADF Foods Ltd.(up 5.21%), Gillette India Ltd.(up 1.94%), Tasty Bite Eatables Ltd.(up 0.96%), Hatsun Agro Products Ltd.(up 0.84%), Jyothy Labs Ltd.(up 0.83%), LT Foods Ltd.(up 0.71%), Nakoda Group Of Industries Ltd.(up 0.70%), Nakoda Group Of Industries Ltd.(up 0.70%), Varun Beverages Ltd.(up 0.63%) and Vadilal Industries Ltd.(up 0.61%) were among the top gainers.

Dangee Dums Ltd.(down 2.56%), Parag Milk Foods Ltd.(down 1.08%), Honasa Consumer Ltd.(down 1.07%), Tata Consumer Products Ltd.(down 0.96%), Heritage Foods Ltd.(down 0.94%), Prataap Snacks Ltd.(down 0.84%), Nestle India Ltd.(down 0.54%), Colgate-Palmolive(India)Ltd.(down 0.44%), Bikaji Foods International Ltd.(down 0.36%) and AWL Agri Business Ltd.(down 0.35%) were among the top losers.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 74.46 points down at 24872.05, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was down 235.37 points at 81560.78 at around 10:57AM.

Asian Paints Ltd.(up 1.26%), Axis Bank Ltd.(up 0.76%), Bharat Electronics Ltd.(up 0.75%), HCL Technologies Ltd.(up 0.75%), Infosys Ltd.(up 0.51%), Tech Mahindra Ltd.(up 0.42%), HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd.(up 0.41%), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.(up 0.37%), Wipro Ltd.(up 0.35%) and NTPC Ltd.(up 0.32%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

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On the other hand, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.(down 1.98%), Bajaj Finance Ltd.(down 1.44%), Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.(down 1.28%), Eternal Ltd.(down 1.24%), Cipla Ltd.(down 1.18%), Adani Enterprises Ltd.(down 1.03%), Tata Consumer Products Ltd.(down 0.96%), Shriram Finance Ltd.(down 0.92%), IndusInd Bank Ltd.(down 0.89%) and Titan Company Ltd.(down 0.84%) were trading in the red.