Stock market update: Sugar stocks up as market rises

NEW DELHI: Sugar stocks were trading higher on Thursday at 10:09AM

KCP Sugar & Industries Corporation Ltd.(up 5.70%), Ponni Sugars(Erode)Ltd.(up 3.85%), Simbhaoli Sugars Ltd.(up 3.36%), Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar Ltd.(up 3.13%), Rajshree Sugars & Chemicals Ltd.(up 2.94%), KM Sugar Mills Ltd.(up 2.64%), Vishwaraj Sugar Industries Ltd.(up 2.31%), Magadh Sugar & Energy Ltd.(up 2.28%), Shree Renuka Sugars Ltd.(up 2.23%) and Bannari Amman Sugars Ltd.(up 2.23%) were among the top gainers.

were among the top losers.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 207.56 points up at 22046.65, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was up 665.96 points at 72767.65 at around 10:09AM.

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.(up 2.94%), NTPC Ltd.(up 2.86%), Tata Steel Ltd.(up 2.79%), IndusInd Bank Ltd.(up 2.63%), Hindalco Industries Ltd.(up 2.61%), Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.(up 2.31%), JSW Steel Ltd.(up 2.3%), Coal India Ltd.(up 2.16%), Larsen & Toubro Ltd.(up 2.1%) and Wipro Ltd.(up 1.91%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(down 0.21%), Nestle India Ltd.(down 0.15%), Britannia Industries Ltd.(down 0.04%) and Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd.(down 0.01%) were trading in the red.