INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Abbott India, Bajaj Finserv, AstraZeneca Pharma, Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Holdings Investment, Jubilant Foodworks, Page Industries
and Tata Elxsi hit 52-week highs on NSE in Monday's weak market.
By 12 pm, 11 stocks had hit 52-week highs on NSE.
Equity benchmarks were
lacklustre owing to profit-booking amid mixed Asian cues on worries over a US-China trade war.
The NSE Nifty50 index was down 17 points at
10,804, while the BSE Sensex was 70 points down at 35,620 around 11:55 am
Barring IT, metal and pharma, all sectors were incurring losses on NSE
Nifty Pharma was the top gainer among the sectoral indices, rising nearly 1 per cent.
Cadila, Sun Pharma, Lupin and Aurobindo Pharma were
among the top gainers in the pharma index.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 22 were trading in the green, while 28 were in the
red.
Vedanta, Hindalco and UltraTech Cement were among the top gainers in the Nifty index, climbing up to 4.44 per cent.
On the contrary,
Tata Motors, BPCL, HPCL and ICICI Bank were among the top losers in the Nifty index, falling up to 3.77 per cent
