NEW DELHI: The BSE Consumer Durables index was trading 0.27 per cent down at 20,816 around 01:05 pm on Thursday on losses in PC Jeweller (down 2.95 per cent), Bajaj Electricals (down 2.45 per cent) and Rajesh Exports (down 1.94 per cent).Shares of Whirlpool of India (down 0.17 per cent) and Titan Company (down 0.12 per cent) were also seen under pressure.
However, shares of Symphony (up 0.92 per cent), Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals (up 0.74 per cent), VIP Industries (up 0.71 per cent), TTK Prestige (up 0.41 per cent) and Blue Star (up 0.11 per cent) were up around the same time.Key equity indices were up on gains in select bank, financial, IT, auto and FMCG stocks.
Firm global cues and short-covering of bets on the last session of May expiry in the derivatives segment kept the overall sentiment up.Benchmark BSE Sensex was up 174 points at 35,080, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 55 points at 10,669.Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 25 were trading in the green, while 23 were in the red.
In the Sensex index, 16 stocks were up, while 15 were down.ICICI Bank, Sun Pharma and Hero MotoCorp were among the top losers in the Sensex pack of stocks.