Utilties shares fall

Utilties stocks were trading in the negative zone, with the S&P BSE Utilities index falling 269.91 points or 7.67% at 3250.92 at 13:47 IST.

Among the components of the S&P BSE Utilities index, Adani Green Energy Ltd (down 20%), Adani Transmission Ltd (down 19.7%),Orient Green Power Company Ltd (down 6.99%),KPI Green Energy Ltd (down 5.52%),Torrent Power Ltd (down 5.02%), were the top losers. Among the other losers were Adani Power Ltd (down 5%), Reliance Infrastructure Ltd (down 4.88%), NLC India Ltd (down 4.72%), Nava Ltd (down 4.59%), and JSW Energy Ltd (down 3.79%).

On the other hand, Waaree Renewables Technologies Ltd (up 3.28%), moved up.

At 13:47 IST, the S&P BSE Sensex was down 1055.99 or 1.75% at 59149.07.

The Nifty 50 index was down 326.3 points or 1.82% at 17565.65.

The S&P BSE Small-Cap index was down 602.36 points or 2.14% at 27552.53.

The S&P BSE 150 Midcap Index index was down 139.64 points or 1.59% at 8641.67.

On BSE,668 shares were trading in green, 2812 were trading in red and 91 were unchanged.

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