NEW DELHI: Metal shares were trading in the positive zone in Tuesday's morning session.Shares of NMDC (up 2.04 per cent), Steel Authority of India (SAIL) (up 1.73 per cent), MOIL (up 1.50 per cent) and Jindal Steel Power (up 1.29 per cent) were the top performers in the index.Vedanta (up 0.50 per cent), Hindalco Industries (up 0.37 per cent), Coal India (up 0.30 per cent) and APL Apollo Tubes (up 0.13 per cent) too were trading in the green.
The Nifty Metal index was trading 0.11 per cent up at 3105.75 around 11:00 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 4.80 points at 11,673.95 while the BSE Sensex was up 34.64 points at 38,906.51.Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 28 were trading in the green, while 22 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, Tata Motors, BEL, Bank of Baroda, SBI, Ashok Leyland, SAIL, YES Bank, BHEL, Zee Entertainment, DLF, Bharti Airtel, ONGC, ICICI Bank and Indian Oil Corp were among the most traded shares on the NSE.