NEW DELHI: Metal stocks were trading with gains in Thursday's session, keeping their sectoral index on NSE in the positive zone.The Nifty Metal index was trading 0.92 per cent up at 2873.05 around 11:12 am.
Shares of Jindal Stainless (Hisar) (up 2.45 per cent), NMDC (up 1.95 per cent), Vedanta (up 1.82 per cent) and Welspun Corp (up 1.76 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.
JSW Steel (up 1.39 per cent), MOIL (up 0.74 per cent), Hindustan Zinc (up 0.70 per cent) and Hindalco Industries (up 0.69 per cent) too were trading with gains.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 19.80 points at 10,826.45 while the BSE Sensex was up 89.09 points at 35,994.52.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 33 were trading in the green, while 17 were in the red.
Shares of Ashok Leyland, YES Bank, ONGC, Tata Motors, SAIL, Idea Cellular, SBI, ITC, BHEL, Motherson Sumi, NMDC, Bandhan Bank, Coal India Ltd, ICICI Bank and NTPC were among most traded securities on the National Stock Exchange on Thursday .