NEW DELHI: Sugar shares closed lower in the Wednesday’s session.
Ponni Sugars(Erode)Ltd.(up 1.23%), Sakthi Sugars Ltd.(up 1.19%), DCM Shriram Industries Ltd.(up 0.96%), Dalmia Bharat Sugar and Industries Ltd.(up 0.77%), EID Parry(India)Ltd.(up 0.73%), Mawana Sugars Ltd.(up 0.65%), Simbhaoli Sugars Ltd.(up 0.37%), Rajshree Sugars & Chemicals Ltd.(up 0.25%), KM Sugar Mills Ltd.(up 0.14%) and Uttam Sugar Mills Ltd.(up 0.08%) stood among the top gainers.
Dhampur Sugar Mills Ltd.(down 1.96%), Magadh Sugar & Energy Ltd.(down 1.83%), Bannari Amman Sugars Ltd.(down 1.55%), Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar Ltd.(down 0.93%), Ugar Sugar Works Ltd.(down 0.92%), Vishwaraj Sugar Industries Ltd.(down 0.63%), Balrampur Chini Mills Ltd.(down 0.36%), Kothari Sugars & Chemicals Ltd.(down 0.35%), Dwarikesh Sugar Industries Ltd.(down 0.30%) and Triveni Engineering & Industries Ltd.(down 0.13%) were among the top losers of the day.
The NSE Nifty50 index ended 17.3 points down at 22200.55, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed down 117.58 points at 72987.03.
Coal India Ltd.(up 4.27%), Cipla Ltd.(up 3.64%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.(up 3.16%), Bharti Airtel Ltd.(up 2.0%), Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.(up 1.82%), NTPC Ltd.(up 1.56%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(up 1.43%), Hindalco Industries Ltd.(up 1.1%), Larsen & Toubro Ltd.(up 0.95%) and HCL Technologies Ltd.(up 0.9%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.
On the other hand, Asian Paints Ltd.(down 1.83%), Tata Motors Ltd.(down 1.8%), Bajaj Auto Ltd.(down 1.79%), Eicher Motors Ltd.(down 1.72%), HDFC Bank Ltd.(down 1.54%), Tata Consumer Products Ltd.(down 1.53%), Britannia Industries Ltd.(down 1.5%), JSW Steel Ltd.(down 1.2%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.(down 1.16%) and Hindustan Unilever Ltd.(down 1.12%) closed in the red.