NEW DELHI: Metal shares were trading with losses in Tuesday's morning session.
Shares of Vedanta (down 1.50 per cent ) , Jindal Steel - Power (down 1.44 per cent ) , Hindustan Zinc (down 0.93 per cent ) and Steel Authority of India (SAIL) (down 0.67 per cent ) were the top losers in the index.
Hindalco Industries (down 0.67 per cent ) , Coal India (down 0.65 per cent ) , National Aluminium Company (down 0.47 per cent ) and Tata Steel (down 0.32 per cent ) too were trading lower.
The Nifty Metal index was trading 0.61 per cent down at 2524.05 around 10:37 am.Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 29.50 points at 11,914 while the BSE Sensex was up 118.21 points at 40,402.40.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 21 were trading in the green, while 29 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, SBI Life Insurance Company, Bharti Airtel, Corp Bank, Glenmark Pharma, Bharti Infratel, Ashok Leyland and SBI were among the most traded shares on the NSE.