Stock market update: PC Jeweller, Voltas boost consumer durables index

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: PC Jeweller (up 17.09 per cent), Symphony (up 5.56 per cent), Whirlpool of India (up 3.16 per cent) and Voltas (up 2.71 per cent)
were keeping the consumer durables index up in Monday's trade. The BSE Consumer Durables index was trading 1 per cent up at 20,175 around
02:05 pm
Shares of Blue Star (up 1.96 per cent), Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals (up 1.39 per cent) and TTK Prestige (up 1.37 per cent) too
were among the gainers
However, VIP Industries (down 1.16 per cent) slipped over 1 per cent, while Titan Company (down 0.17 per cent) was swinging between gains
and losses
Gains in select FMCG, bank and auto stocks, including ITC, ICICI Bank, Hindustan Unilever and Maruti Suzuki, were keeping the equity
benchmarks up
The BSE Sensex was up 131 points at 36,627, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 44 points at 11,054. Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index,
29 were trading in the green, while 21 were in the red
In the Sensex index, 21 stocks were advancing, while 10 were declining. Adani Ports, Bharti Airtel and State Bank of India featured among
top Sensex gainers. However, Hero MotoCorp, Bajaj Auto and Wipro were among the top losers in the Sensex index.