INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Gains in Bajaj Electricals (up 5.69 per cent), Titan Company (up 3.36 per cent) and PC Jeweller (up 1.74 per cent) gave a boost
to consumer durables index during Wednesday's trade.
The BSE Consumer Durables index was trading 2.09 per cent up at 20,336 around 02:15
Shares of VIP Industries (up 1.52 per cent), TTK Prestige (up 1.22 per cent), Rajesh Exports (up 0.99 per cent), Whirlpool of India (up
0.93 per cent) and Symphony (up 0.12 per cent) were also trading with gains.
However, Blue Star (down 0.75 per cent) and Crompton Greaves
Consumer Electricals (down -0.04 per cent) were down in the index around that time.
Equity markets were up ahead of the RBI policy outcome
scheduled for later in the day
Benchmark BSE Sensex was up 219 points at 35,122, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 67 points at 10,660.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty
index, 40 were trading in the green, while 10 were in the red
The Sensex kitty had 26 stocks advancing and 5 declining.
Bharti Airtel, Tata Motors and Sun Pharma were leading the pack of Sensex
