NEW DELHI: FMCG shares were down in Tuesday's morning session with their sectoral index trading lower.Shares of Britannia Industries (down 0.91 per cent) , Procter Gamble Hygiene Healthcare (down 0.79 per cent) , GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (down 0.59 per cent) and United Breweries (down 0.56 per cent) were trading lower.ITC (down 0.44 per cent) , Godrej Consumer Products (down 0.37 per cent) and Hindustan Unilever (down 0.33 per cent) too were with losses.
The Nifty FMCG index was trading 0.27 per cent down at 30,110.40 around 10:51 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 5.80 points at 11,674.95 while the BSE Sensex was up 34.56 points at 38,906.43.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 31 were trading in the green, while 19 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, Tata Motors, BEL, Bank of Baroda, SBI, Ashok Leyland, YES Bank, SAIL, Zee Ent., DLF, Bharti Airtel, BHEL, ONGC, Indian Oil Corp and ICICI Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.