NEW DELHI: Gains in shares of PC Jeweller (up 5.23 per cent), Titan Company (up 1.77 per cent) and Rajesh Exports (up 0.83 per cent) were keeping the consumer durables index in the higher terrain during Wednesday's trade.The BSE Consumer Durables index was trading 0.83 per cent up at 20,868 around 01:15 pm.
However, Blue Star (down 1.68 per cent), VIP Industries (down 0.91 per cent), TTK Prestige (down 0.83 per cent), Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals (down 0.64 per cent), Whirlpool of India (down 0.50 per cent), Bajaj Electricals (down 0.50 per cent) and Symphony (down 0.08 per cent) were incurring losses around that time.
Sustained buying in IT, bank and pharma stocks were keeping the equity benchmarks up.The BSE Sensex was up 121 points at 35,813, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 29 points at 10,872.
In the Sensex index, 21 stocks were advancing while 10 were declining.Dr Reddy's Labs, Tata Consultancy Services and Sun Pharma were leading among Sensex gainers.On the other hand, Tata Steel, Hindustan Unilever and Bharti Airtel were among the top losers in the Sensex index.