Basic materials stocks were trading in green, with the BSE Commodities index increasing 48.72 points or 0.63% at 7754.69 at 09:42 IST.
Among the components of the BSE Commodities index, India Pesticides Ltd (up 7.06%), Prism Johnson Ltd (up 6.72%),HeidelbergCement India Ltd (up 3.55%),Sunflag Iron & Steel Company Ltd (up 3.42%),Sagar Cements Ltd (up 3.31%), were the top gainers. Among the other gainers were Ultramarine & Pigments Ltd (up 3.16%), Saurashtra Cement Ltd (up 2.99%), Best Agrolife Ltd (up 2.69%), Camlin Fine Sciences Ltd (up 2.65%), and Ashapura Minechem Ltd (up 2.59%).
On the other hand, NACL Industries Ltd (down 6.85%), Seshasayee Paper & Boards Ltd (down 4.04%), and Neogen Chemicals Ltd (down 2.6%) turned lower.
At 09:42 IST, the BSE SmallCap was up 210.81 or 0.37% at 57713.93.
The BSE 150 MidCap Index index was up 35.25 points or 0.21% at 16514.01.
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The Nifty 50 index was up 15.7 points or 0.06% at 24625.75.
The BSE Sensex index was up 36.76 points or 0.05% at 81546.81.
On BSE,2135 shares were trading in green, 955 were trading in red and 127 were unchanged.
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