Energy shares edge lower

Energy stocks were trading in red, with the S&P BSE Energy index falling 70.6 points or 0.8% at 8730.93 at 13:47 IST.

Among the components of the S&P BSE Energy index, Oil & Natural Gas Corpn Ltd (down 3.33%), Aegis Logistics Ltd (down 2.43%),Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (down 1.94%),Mahanagar Gas Ltd (down 1.53%),Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (down 1.34%), were the top losers. Among the other losers were Gujarat Gas Ltd (down 1.08%), Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (down 1.02%), Goa Carbon Ltd (down 0.93%), Indraprastha Gas Ltd (down 0.67%), and Deep Industries Ltd (down 0.61%).

On the other hand, Jindal Drilling & Industries Ltd (up 7.96%), Confidence Petroleum India Ltd (up 6.9%), and Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd (up 2.53%) moved up.

At 13:47 IST, the S&P BSE Sensex was down 151.08 or 0.25% at 60109.05.

The Nifty 50 index was down 50.6 points or 0.28% at 17893.65.

The S&P BSE Small-Cap index was up 50.21 points or 0.18% at 28393.21.

The S&P BSE 150 Midcap Index index was down 1.26 points or 0.01% at 8952.55.

On BSE,1779 shares were trading in green, 1580 were trading in red and 126 were unchanged.

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