NEW DELHI: FMCG shares were trading lower in Friday's morning session.Shares of ColgatePalmolive (India) (down 1.41 per cent) , Godrej Consumer Products (down 0.66 per cent) , ITC (down 0.50 per cent) and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (down 0.41 per cent) were the top losers in the index.
United Spirits (down 0.29 per cent) , United Breweries (down 0.27 per cent) , Dabur India (down 0.25 per cent) and Emami (down 0.15 per cent) too were trading in the red.
The Nifty FMCG index was trading 0.23 per cent down at 30,227.15 around 11:08 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 18.40 points at 11,502.65 while the BSE Sensex was 61.39 points at 38325.36 .
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 21 were trading in the green, while 29 were in the red.
Shares of NTPC, YES Bank, ONGC, Indian Oil Corp, Bank of Baroda, SBI, Ashok Leyland, Hindalco Inds., ICICI Bank, SAIL, Coal India, Indiabulls Housing Finance, Bharti Airtel and BEL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.