NEW DELHI: Most of the metal stocks were tradind in the green in Tuesday's afternoon session.Shares of National Aluminium Company (up 2.43 per cent), National Mineral Development Corp (up 0.85 per cent), JSW Steel (up 0.76 per cent), Coal India (up 0.48 per cent) and Jindal Steel - Power (up 0.44 per cent) were among the top gainers.
While Hindustan Copper (down 1.54 per cent), Welspun Corp (down 1.24 per cent) and MOIL (down 0.49 per cent) were the top losers in the index.
The Nifty Metal index was trading 0.29 per cent up at 2,714.25 around 11:05 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 14.50 points at 12,248.25, while the BSE Sensex was 58.65 points at 41,584.01.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 30 were trading in the green, while 20 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, Indiabulls Housing, Zee Entertainment, SBI, BHEL, SAIL, Tata Motors, NBCC and JSPL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.