Sensex down 41 points; consumer durables, healthcare fall

Shares of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise, Oil India, Wockhardt, and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare are trading higher by up to 4% in opening deals on inclusion in the MSCI India index with effect from June 1.

Indian markets were trading marginally in the red due to fresh selling in select stocks amid mixed Asian cues. At 12.25 p.m., the 30-share BSE index Sensex was down 10.19 points (0.05 per cent) at 20,237.14 and the 50-share NSE index Nifty was down 5.95 ...

Apollo Hospitals, Oil India, Wockhardt and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare have been added to the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) India index. "The changes will take place after the close of trade on May 31," MSCI said in a statement. There ...

-- Expansion adds 70 markets, enabling more than 20 million consumers to comparison shop for health care services based on quality and cost -- Online and mobile tool provides personalized, integrated health care decision support with quality, cost, ...

Since 60 percent of Catalonia's population over 65 has chronic diseases and consumes 70 percent of the region's healthcare resources, the Catalonian government is tackling the problem through more coordinated chronic disease management. The ...

Consumer goods companies such as GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, Bajaj Corp and Dabur, which cater to the $13.1 billion (Rs71,000 crore) national market, are sharpening focus on rural distribution in anticipation of higher spends.

Glaxosmithkline Consumer Healthcare is currently trading at Rs. 4140.05, up by 97.50 points or 2.41 % from its previous closing of Rs. 4042.55 on the BSE. The scrip opened at Rs. 4020.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 4150.00 and Rs. 4000.00 ...

Sanofi India (previously known as Aventis Pharma) on Tuesday said it aims to double its consumer healthcare business in the next five years

(Reuters) - Diversified healthcare company Johnson & Johnson, which makes consumer products like the Neutrogena-brand line, said on Monday that Venezuela's February 13 devaluation of its currency would cut first quarter profit by 4 cents per share.