NEW DELHI: Shares of PSU were trading with losses in Tuesday's afternoon session.Shares of Steel Authority of India (SAIL) (down 4.56 per cent) , REC (down 3.88 per cent) , Bharat Heavy Electricals (down 2.25 per cent) and Container Corporation of India (down 2.18 per cent) were the top losers in the index.National Aluminium Company (down 1.96 per cent) , Bharat Electronics (down 1.94 per cent) , Oil And Natural Gas Corporation (down 1.37 per cent) and Oil India (down 1.13 per cent) too were trading lower.
The Nifty PSE index was trading 0.80 per cent down at 3204.45 around 12:10 pm.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 73.90 points at 11,974.30, while the BSE Sensex was 219.71 points at 40,582.46.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 11 were trading in the green, while 38 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, JSPL, Bharti Infratel, SBI, SAIL, Bank of Baroda, Tata Motors and Bharti Airtel were among the most traded shares on the NSE.