NEW DELHI: Shares of Manpasand Beverages (down 5 per cent), Vakrangee (down 4.97 per cent) and HCC (down 4.51 per cent) plunged up to 5 per cent in morning trade on Thursday.Stocks such as TV Today Network (down 4.28 per cent), Titan Company (down 4.22 per cent), Tata Motors (down 3.76 per cent), Infosys (down 3.66 per cent), India Tourism (down 3.64 per cent), G M Breweries (down 3.49 per cent), Sonata Software (down 3.35 per cent), GTL Infra (down 3.33 per cent) and Shriram City Union Finance (down 3.07 per cent) declined up to 4 per cent.Market sentiment was subdued amid weak Asian cues.Asian markets were trading lower as investors look for direction amid growing global trade war tensions.Besides, the unabated slide of Indian rupee too weighed on the sentiment.
At the time of writing this report, rupee was trading 7 paise down.Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was 5 points up at 10,775, while the BSE Sensex was flat at 35,647 around 10:30 am.In the Nifty index, 26 stocks were in the green, while 24 were in the red.
YES Bank, Ultratech Cement, Mahindra Mahindra, HPCL and Bajaj Finserv were leading among the Nifty gainers.On the contrary, Tata Motors, Titan Company, Tata Steel, Bajaj Auto and Vedanta were trading among the top losers in the Nifty index.