StanChart, FTIL, 19 others to exit BSE 500 from Dec 21

MUMBAI: Stocks of 21 companies, including Standard Chartered, Financial Technologies India, Reliance Industrial Infrastructure, JSW Holdings, ABG Shipyard and Lanco Infratech will be dropped from BSE 500 on December 21.

Among others, Future Lifestyle Fashions, IVRCL Ltd, State Bank of Mysore and Punjab & Sind Bank will be shifted out of the index, Asia Index said in a statement here today.

Asia Index is a 50-50 joint venture between BSE and financial market indices provider S&P Dow Jones Indices.

Meanwhile, SpiceJet, GHCL, Trident and 18 other securities would be added to the BSE 500, an index of the top 500 listed companies in the country.

Further, Asia Index said CCL International Ltd "will be dropped from the index effective December 2 on account of suspension due to consolidation, instead of December 21".