Share market update: Fertilizer stocks advance; Zuari Agro surges 15%

NEW DELHI: Fertilizer stocks were trading with gains in Monday's afternoon session.

Shares of Zuari Agro (up 14.90 per cent), Bharat Agri Fert & Realty (up 8.57 per cent), Deepak Fertilizers & Petrochemicals (up 6.93 per cent), Southern Petrochemicals Industries (up 5.73 per cent), Fertilizers & Chemicals Tranvancore (up 5.61 per cent), Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals (up 4.67 per cent), National Fertilizer (up 3.73 per cent), Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chem (up 3.38 per cent), Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers (up 2.93 per cent), Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers (up 2.58 per cent), Basant Agro Tech (India) (up 2.35 per cent), G S F C (up 2.17 per cent), Aries Agro (up 2.06 per cent), Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers (up 1.39 per cent), Khaitan Chemicals & Fertilizers (up 0.72 per cent), Rama Phosphates (up 0.57 per cent) and Coromandel International (up 0.36 per cent) were among the top gainers.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 74.45 points down at 12,173.8 , while the 30-share BSE Sensex was down 243.77 points at 41,369.42 at around 02:09 pm.

Mahindra & Mahindra (up 2.15 per cent), ICICI Bank (up 1.25 per cent), UltraTech Cement (up 1.1 per cent), Axis Bank (up 0.9 per cent), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (up 0.85 per cent), Bajaj Auto (up 0.78 per cent), Maruti Suzuki (up 0.73 per cent), Tech Mahindra (up 0.68 per cent) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Tata Steel (down 3.28 per cent), IndusInd Bank (down 2.41 per cent), HDFC Bank (down 2.23 per cent) and State Bank of India (down 1.68 per cent) were trading in the red.