NEW DELHI: The domestic equity benchmark BSE Sensex was trading 16.77 points down at 36,047.04 on account of selling in frontline bluechip counters.Shares of Morarjee Textiles (up 17.50 per cent), Gujarat Auto (up 17.06 per cent), Simplex Casting (up 16.37 per cent), Fervent Synergies (up 16.31 per cent), Xpro India (up 15.60 per cent), Poddar Housing (up 15.42 per cent), Religare (up 13.41 per cent), Andhra Cements (up 13.26 per cent), Nila Infra (up 12.62 per cent) and TRF (up 12.40 per cent) were among the top performers.Suzlon Energy (up 8.07 per cent) and Symphony (up 6.99 per cent) too were trading 67 per cent higher at around the same time.The Nifty 50 index was trading 4.95 points down at 10,858.55.
Among the 50 components in the Nifty index, 25 shares were trading in the green, while 24 were in the red.