NEW DELHI: The BSE Capital Goods index was trading 0.95 per cent down at 19,148 around 01:05 pm (IST), with Suzlon Energy (down 3.98 per cent), Welspun Corp (down 2.27 per cent) and Larsen Toubro (down 1.68 per cent) as the top losers.BHEL (down 1.36 per cent), GE TD India (down 1.15 per cent), Havells India (down 0.52 per cent) and Finolex Cables (down 0.50 per cent) were also among the top losers.However, shares of BEML (up 4.45 per cent) surged over 4 per cent on media reports that Tata AIG Life Insurance Company bought 2.90 lakh share of the company at Rs 1,061.76 each.Carborundum Universal (up 2.04 per cent), Lakshmi Machine Works (up 2.02 per cent), V-Guard Industries (up 1.86 per cent), SKF India (up 1.61 per cent), Kalpataru Power Transmissions (up 1.42 per cent), ABB India (up 1.20 per cent), Thermax (up 0.91 per cent) and Siemens (up 0.84 per cent) were also in the green.
Losses in pharma, metal and auto stocks pulled the equity benchmarks down.The BSE Sensex was 23 points down at 35,185, while the NSE Nifty50 index was 12 points down at 10,704.In the Sensex index, 13 stocks were trading with gains, while 17 were suffering losses.
One stock was appearing unchanged.Mahindra Mahindra, IndusInd Bank and Larsen Toubro were the top losers in the Sensex index.