NEW DELHI: Metal shares were trading with gains with the Nifty Metal index up 1.43 per cent at 3156.6 around 11:34 am on Monday.
Shares of APL Apollo Tubes (up 3.51 per cent), Jindal Stainless (Hisar) (up 3.04 per cent), Steel Authority of India (SAIL) (up 2.84 per cent), and Hindustan Copper (up 2.66 per cent) were the top performers in the index.
Jindal Steel Power (up 2.61 per cent), JSW Steel (up 2.31 per cent), Tata Steel (up 1.92 per cent) and NMDC (up 1.83 per cent) too were trading with gains.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 9.60 points at 10,869.50 while the BSE Sensex was up 23.88 points at 36,100.60.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 31 were trading in the green, while 18 were in the red.
Shares of SAIL, YES Bank, BEL, Ashok Leyland, SBI, Bank of Baroda, Tata Steel, Tata Motors, BHEL, Vedanta, Vodafone Idea, Indiabulls Housing Finance, JSW Steel, Hindalco Industries and Titan Company were among the most traded shares on the NSE.