NEW DELHI: The BSE Consumer Durables index was trading 1.47 per cent down at 20,090 around 01:15 pm on Wednesday with a majority of stocks in the red.Shares of Whirlpool of India (down 4.28 per cent), PC Jeweller (down 3.82 per cent) and VIP Industries (down 3.76 per cent) were the top losers in the index.Shares of Voltas (down 1.63 per cent), Titan Company (down 1.52 per cent) and Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals (down 1.08 per cent) suffered losses of over 1 per cent.TTK Prestige (down 0.85 per cent), Symphony (down 0.25 per cent) and Rajesh Exports (down 0.08 per cent) too were in the red.
Blue Star (up 0.70 per cent) was the only stock in the consumer durables index that was in the green at that time.
Benchmark BSE Sensex was 36 points down at 37,255, while the NSE Nifty50 index was down 15 points at 11,264.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 29 were trading in the green, while 21 were in the red.
In the Sensex pack, 17 stocks were advancing and 14 were declining.Coal India, ONGC, Tata Steel, Hero MotoCorp and Bajaj Auto were leading among Sensex scrips.Maruti, IndusInd Bank, HDFC Bank, HDFC and Reliance Industries were among the top losers in the Sensex index.