NEW DELHI: Gains in Titan Company (up 2.88 per cent), Symphony (up 2.15 per cent), Whirlpool of India (up 0.45 per cent) and Rajesh Exports (up 0.27 per cent) were keeping the consumer durables index up in Thursday's session.The BSE Consumer Durables index was trading 1.06 per cent up at 19,853 around 02:15 pm.
However, shares of PC Jeweller (down 8.14 per cent) plunged over 8 per cent.TTK Prestige (down 1.72 per cent), Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals (down 0.67 per cent), Blue Star (down 0.57 per cent) and VIP Industries (down 0.44 per cent) were also incurring losses.
Losses in Kotak Mahindra Bank, HDFC, Larsen Toubro, TCS and ICICI Bank were weighing on key equity indices.
Benchmark BSE Sensex was 38 points down at 36,336, while the NSE Nifty50 index was down 25 points at 10,955.Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 22 were trading in the green, while 28 were in the red.
In the Sensex index, 18 stocks were advancing, while 13 were declining.Vedanta, Bharti Airtel and YES Bank were among the top gainers in the Sensex index.
Kotak Mahindra Bank, falling over 4 per cent, was leading among the Sensex losers even as the bank on Thursday reported a 12 per cent year-on-year growth in standalone net profit at Rs 1,025 crore for the June quarter, aided by better asset quality.