Top gainers included Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilisers (up 2.78%), Zuari Agro Chemicals (up 2.76%), Khaitan Chemicals and Fertilisers (up 1.48%), Sicco Industries (up 1.16%), Agro Phos India (up 0.77%) and Paradeep Phosphates (up 0.22%).
Fertiliser and chemical companies such as Travancore (down 9.04%), National Fertilisers Ltd (down 6.72%), Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilisers Ltd (down 5.68%), Madras Fertilisers Ltd (down 5.24%), Bhola Industries Ltd (down 5.01%), Nagarjuna Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd (down 4.24%), Gujarat State Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd (down 3.69%), Southern Petrochemicals Industries Ltd (down 2.85%), Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd (down 2.33%) and Krishana Foshem Ltd (down 2.33%) were among the top losers.
At around 10:45 am, the NSE Nifty50 index was trading at 23,478.3, down 22.8 points, while the 30-stock BSE Sensex was trading at 77,142.19, down 67.71 points.
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (up 2.07 per cent), Mahindra & Mahindra (up 1.59 per cent), Power Grid Corporation of India (up 1.48 per cent), Nestle India (up 1.15 per cent), Apollo Hospitals Enterprises (up 1.13 per cent), Tata Consultancy Services (up 0.95 per cent), Bajaj Auto (up 0.73 per cent), Grasim Industries (up 0.71 per cent), ITC (up 0.64 per cent) and NTPC (up 0.56 per cent) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack. On the other hand, IndusInd Bank (down 2.6%), Cipla (down 1.81%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone (down 1.64%), Tata Steel (down 1.53%), Coal India (down 1.2%), Bajaj Finance (down 0.94%), Britannia Industries (down 0.81%), Reliance Industries (down 0.78%), State Bank of India (down 0.74%) and SBI Life Insurance (down 0.73%) were among the decliners.
