NEW DELHI: The domestic equity benchmark BSE Sensex was trading 21.59 points down at 36,423.05 on Wednesday on account of selling in frontline bluechip counters.Shares of Devoted Construction (down 19.92 per cent) , Ponni Sugars (down 10.64 per cent) , Asian Hotels (down 9.03 per cent) , Kamadgiri Fashion (down 8.78 per cent) , ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company (down 8.56 per cent) , Godavari Drugs (down 8.02 per cent) , Steel Exchange (down 7.69 per cent) , Swastika Investmart (down 7.42 per cent) , Cupid (down 6.66 per cent) and Starlite Components (down 6.54 per cent) were among worst performers.Thiru Arooran Sugars (dow 5 per cent) and Punj Lloyd (down 4.99 per cent) too declined around 5 per cent at around same time.
In Nifty pack, 33 stocks were trading in green, while 17 stocks were in red.The Nifty index was trading 0.25 points up at 10,923.