NEW DELHI: Metal stocks were trading with losses in Monday's session, keeping their sectoral index on NSE in the negative zone.Shares of Vedanta (down 1.82 per cent) , Welspun Corp (down 1.67 per cent) , National Aluminium Company (down 1.28 per cent) and Jindal Stainless (Hisar) (down 0.99 per cent) were the top losers in the index.
Hindustan Zinc (down 0.69 per cent) , MOIL (down 0.66 per cent) , Coal India (down 0.61 per cent) and Hindalco Industries (down 0.53 per cent) too were trading in the red.
The Nifty Metal index was trading 0.55 per cent down at 2991.65 around 11:04 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 17.50 points at 11,444.35 while the BSE Sensex was up 49.93 points at 38,074.25.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 23 were trading in the green, while 27 were in the red.
Shares of Indian Oil Corp, YES Bank, Bank of Baroda, Ashok Leyland, ICICI Bank, SAIL, SBI, Tata Motors, BEL, NTPC, PowerGrid, RIL, BHEL and Axis Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.