NEW DELHI: PC Jeweller (up 17.09 per cent), Symphony (up 5.56 per cent), Whirlpool of India (up 3.16 per cent) and Voltas (up 2.71 per cent) were keeping the consumer durables index up in Monday's trade.The BSE Consumer Durables index was trading 1 per cent up at 20,175 around 02:05 pm.
Shares of Blue Star (up 1.96 per cent), Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals (up 1.39 per cent) and TTK Prestige (up 1.37 per cent) too were among the gainers.
However, VIP Industries (down 1.16 per cent) slipped over 1 per cent, while Titan Company (down 0.17 per cent) was swinging between gains and losses.
Gains in select FMCG, bank and auto stocks, including ITC, ICICI Bank, Hindustan Unilever and Maruti Suzuki, were keeping the equity benchmarks up.
The BSE Sensex was up 131 points at 36,627, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 44 points at 11,054.Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 29 were trading in the green, while 21 were in the red.
In the Sensex index, 21 stocks were advancing, while 10 were declining.Adani Ports, Bharti Airtel and State Bank of India featured among top Sensex gainers.However, Hero MotoCorp, Bajaj Auto and Wipro were among the top losers in the Sensex index.