NEW DELHI: Metal stocks were trading with gains in Tuesday's session, keeping their sectoral index on NSE in the positive zone.Shares of Welspun Corp (up 4.84 per cent) , MOIL (up 2.62 per cent) , Hindalco Industries (up 2.01 per cent) and Hindustan Zinc (up 1.68 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.
Vedanta (up 1.64 per cent) , Hindustan Copper (up 1.39 per cent) , Jindal Stainless (Hisar) (up 1.26 per cent) and Tata Steel (up 1.20 per cent) too were trading higher.
The Nifty Metal index was trading 1.07 per cent up at 3061.30 around 10:58 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 130.05 points at 11,298.10 while the BSE Sensex was up 448.67 points at 37502.77.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 42 were trading in the green, while 8 were in the red.
Shares of Ashok Leyland, ICICI Bank, PowerGrid, YES Bank, BEL, Tata Motors, Bharti Airtel, NTPC, SBI, DLF, HDFC Life Insurance Company, HPCL, Indian Oil Corp and SAIL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.