NEW DELHI: FMCG shares were trading lower in Monday's morning session.Shares of Marico (down 2.60 per cent), Hindustan Unilever (down 1.98 per cent), Jubilant Foodworks (down 1.70 per cent) and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (down 1.37 per cent) were trading lower.
United Breweries (down 1.01 per cent), ITC (down 0.97 per cent), Dabur India (down 0.92 per cent) and United Spirits (down 0.84 per cent) too were with losses.
The Nifty FMCG index was trading 1.20 per cent down at 29,394.05 around 10:56 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 87.05 points at 11,625.20 while the BSE Sensex was down 286.24 points at 38,677.02.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 11 were trading in the green, while 39 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Tata Motors, ONGC, SAIL, ICICI Bank, Tata Steel, Motherson Sumi, Ashok Leyland, Bharti Airtel, Infosys, Hindalco Inds., Bank of Baroda, JSW Steel and Indian Oil Corp were among the most traded shares on the NSE.