Stock market update: Fertilisers stocks down as market rises

NEW DELHI: Fertilisers shares closed higher in the Tuesday's session.

ZUARIAGRO(up 16.89%), Bohra Industries(up 4.63%), National Fertilizer(up 3.34%), Sikko Industries(up 2.54%), Madras Fertlizers(up 1.73%), KRISHANA(up 1.25%), Fertilizers & Chemicals Tranvancore(up 0.53%), Southern Petrochemicals Industries(up 0.15%) and Deepak Fertilizers & Petrochemicals(up 0.02%) stood among the top gainers.

Agro Phos(down 2.38%), Madhya Bharat Agro Products(down 2.22%), Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers(down 1.33%), Paradeep Phosphates(down 1.30%), Coromandel International(down 1.16%), Khaitan Chemicals & Fertilizers(down 1.09%), Aries Agro(down 0.75%), Rama Phosphates(down 0.63%), Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers (down 0.55%) and Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers(down 0.43%) were among the top losers of the day.

The NSE Nifty50 index ended 33.6 points up at 18348.0, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed up 18.11 points at 61981.79.

Adani Enterprises(up 13.22%), Divis Laboratories(up 3.7%), Bajaj Finserv(up 1.72%), Eicher Motors(up 1.58%), UPL Ltd(up 1.53%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation(up 1.38%), SBI Life(up 1.29%), Asian Paints(up 1.16%), Tata Motors(up 1.15%) and IndusInd Bank(up 1.13%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Tech Mahindra(down 1.26%), Apollo Hospitals Enterprises(down 1.19%), Grasim Industries(down 1.19%), HCL Technologies(down 1.12%), Titan Company Ltd(down 1.07%), Kotak Mahindra Bank(down 0.96%), Larsen & Toubro(down 0.85%), UltraTech Cement(down 0.8%), HDFC LIFE INSURANCE(down 0.76%) and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries(down 0.62%) closed in the red.