NEW DELHI: Metal shares were trading with gains in Thursday's morning session.
Shares of Hindustan Copper (up 3.39 per cent) , National Aluminium Company (up 2.34 per cent) , Steel Authority of India (up 2.07 per cent) , Jindal Steel - Power (up 2.03 per cent) , VEDL (up 1.65 per cent) , JSW Steel (up 1.63 per cent) , National Mineral Development Corp (up 1.56 per cent) , Tata Steel (up 1.45 per cent) , MOIL (up 0.78 per cent) , APL Apollo Tubes (up 0.71 per cent) , Hindustan Zinc (up 0.59 per cent) and Hindalco Industries (up 0.3 per cent) were among the top gainers.
The Nifty Metal index was trading 0.89 per cent up at 2747.5 around 10:31 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 7.60 points at 12206.95 , while the BSE Sensex was 23.56 points at 41,437.70.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 24 were trading in the green, while 26 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, SAIL, JSPL, Tata Steel, SBI, NALCO, Tata Motors and BHEL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.