Cement stocks decline almost 3%

Shares of Shiva Cement (down 2.66 per cent), Orient Cement (down 2.54 per cent), Sagar Cements (down 2.47 per cent), Dalmia Bharat (down 1.47 per cent), Saurashtra Cement (down 1.45 per cent), NCL Industries (down 1.33 per cent) and JK Lakshmi Cement (down 1.29 per cent) were among the top losers. While Century Textiles & Industries (up 3.89 per cent), Sanghi Industries (up 1.92 per cent) and Mangalam Cement (up 1.51 per cent) were among the top gainers. The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 11.25 points down at 11,910.25, while the 30share BSE Sensex was down 35.86 points at 40,409.29 at around 10:31 am. Zee Entertainment Enterprises (up 2.83 per cent), Maruti Suzuki India (up 2.72 per cent), Tata Motors (up 2.35 per cent), YES Bank (up 2.23 per cent) and Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone (up 1.12 per cent) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack. On the other hand, HCL Technologies (down 2.05 per cent), Tata Consultancy Services (down 1.50 per cent), Hindustan Unilever (down 1.35 per cent), Bharti Infratel (down 0.96 per cent) and Tech Mahindra (down 0.94 per cent) were trading in the red.