Stock market update: Fertilisers stocks down as market falls

NEW DELHI: Fertilisers shares closed lower in the Thursday's session.

Southern Petrochemicals Industries(up 1.95%), KRISHANA(up 1.02%), Madhya Bharat Agro Products(up 0.81%), Paradeep Phosphates(up 0.57%) and Rama Phosphates(up 0.19%) stood among the top gainers.

Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers (down 8.00%), Madras Fertlizers(down 5.79%), Deepak Fertilizers & Petrochemicals(down 4.77%), G S F C(down 4.40%), Coromandel International(down 3.75%), National Fertilizer(down 3.41%), Aries Agro(down 3.14%), Khaitan Chemicals & Fertilizers(down 2.16%), Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals(down 2.11%) and Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers(down 1.87%) were among the top losers of the day.

The NSE Nifty50 index ended 51.8 points down at 18129.95, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed down 128.9 points at 61431.74.

Bajaj Finance(up 1.26%), Kotak Mahindra Bank(up 0.96%), Bharti Airtel(up 0.9%), ICICI Bank(up 0.76%), Asian Paints(up 0.54%), HCL Technologies(up 0.5%), Hero MotoCorp(up 0.45%), HDFC Bank(up 0.4%), HDFC(up 0.36%) and HDFC LIFE INSURANCE(up 0.26%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Divis Laboratories(down 3.5%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone(down 2.87%), State Bank of India(down 2.06%), ITC(down 1.85%), Titan Company Ltd(down 1.47%), Britannia Industries(down 1.46%), Eicher Motors(down 1.45%), Larsen & Toubro(down 1.41%), Mahindra & Mahindra(down 1.39%) and Tata Motors(down 1.37%) closed in the red.