NEW DELHI: Metal shares were trading in the red in Wednesday's morning session.Shares of Vedanta (down 2.83 per cent), Welspun Corp (down 2.38 per cent), Jindal Steel Power (down 2.05 per cent) and Hindalco Industries (down 1.73 per cent) were trading lower.
Steel Authority of India (SAIL) (down 1.50 per cent), JSW Steel (down 1.18 per cent), National Aluminium Company (down 1.09 per cent) and Coal India (down 0.78 per cent) too were trading with losses.
The Nifty Metal index was trading 1.12 per cent down at 2959.50 around 10:44 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 12.10 points at 11,916.65 while the BSE Sensex was down 43.82 points at 39,705.91.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 20 were trading in the green, while 29 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, PNB, Sun Pharma, NMDC, PC Jeweller, Rail Vikas Nigam, DHFL, SBI and ICICI Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
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