NEW DELHI: FMCG stocks were trading mixed during afternoon trade on Wednesday.The Nifty FMCG index was trading 0.21 per cent down at 28,732 around 01:40 pm with 6 stocks in the green and 9 in the red.
Shares of Dabur India (up 1.81 per cent), Godrej Consumer Products (up 1.66 per cent), Hindustan Unilever (HUL) (up 0.90 per cent), GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (up 0.69 per cent), Procter Gamble Hygiene Healthcare (up 0.57 per cent) and Britannia Industries (up 0.33 per cent) were the gainers in the FMCG index.On the other hand, United Breweries (down 5.12 per cent), United Spirits (down 1.95 per cent), Tata Global Beverages (down 1.25 per cent), ITC (down 0.85 per cent), Colgate-Palmolive (India) (down 0.64 per cent), Godrej Industries (down 0.53 per cent), Emami (down 0.34 per cent), Jubilant Foodworks (down 0.32 per cent) and Marico (down 0.32 per cent) were among the losers in the index.
Equity markets were down on selling in most sectors ahead of the expiry of June series of future option contracts tommorrow.
Oil gas, power, capital goods, utilities and industrials were the top losers among the sectoral indices on BSE.On the NSE, all sectors were down, barring IT, that was up on gains in Tech Mahindra, TCS and HCl Tech.Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 81 points at 10,688, while the BSE Sensex was 217 points down at 35,273.Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 10 were trading in the green, while 40 were in the red.
Tech Mahindra, Bharti Infratel, Dr.
Reddy's Laboratories, Hindustan Unilever and Tata Consultancy Services were among the top gainers in the Nifty index.On the contrary, HPCL, BPCL, Indian Oil Corporation and ICICI Bank were among the top losers in the index.