NEW DELHI: The BSE Consumer Durables index was trading 0.22 per cent up at 21,149 around 01:30 pm on Tuesday, with PC Jeweller (up 10.59 per cent) as the top gainer.
Shares of Whirlpool of India (up 1.49 per cent), Bajaj Electricals (up 1.46 per cent), VIP Industries (up 1.39 per cent), TTK Prestige (up 1.34 per cent) and Symphony (up 0.79 per cent) were also trading with gains around that time.However, Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals (down 1.10 per cent), Rajesh Exports (down 0.43 per cent) and Titan Company (down 0.15 per cent) were in the red around the same time.Equity benchmarks pared gains on selling in HDFC, TCS and ITC.
Auto, telecom, industrial, metal and realty stocks were appearing to be buyers' favourite.Midcaps and smallcaps were outperforming benchmark Sensex.The BSE Sensex was up 34 points at 34,650, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 9 points at 10,525.Tata Motors jumped nearly 5 per cent in the Sensex index.
A sustained volume growth in Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is keeping the stocks in the buzz.