INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Metal stocks were trading with gains in Tuesday's session, keeping their sectoral index on NSE in the positive zone.
The Nifty
Metal index was trading 0.52 per cent up at 3044.15 around 10:40 am
Shares of Welspun Corp (up 2.37 per cent), Steel Authority of India (SAIL) (up 2.06 per cent), Jindal Stainless (Hisar) (up 1.72 per cent)
and Jindal Steel Power (up 1.59 per cent) were the top performers in the index
Hindalco Industries (up 1.50 per cent), National Aluminium Company (up 1.47 per cent), Coal India (up 0.70 per cent) and Tata Steel (up
0.50 per cent) too were trading with gains
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 11.05 points at 11,473.25 while the BSE Sensex was up 57.37 points at 38,152.44
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 35 were trading in the green, while 15 were in the red
Shares of Bank of Baroda, Vodafone Idea, SAIL, NTPC, Aditya Birla Capital, ONGC, Indian Oil Corp, SBI, YES Bank, BEL, Ashok Leyland, Bharti
Infratel, Sun Pharma, Vedanta and Tata Motors were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
