NEW DELHI: The S-P BSE Capital Goods index was up in Friday's afternoon session.
Shares of Grindwell Norton (up 2.57 per cent) , Lakshmi Machine Works (up 2.4 per cent) , Kalpataru Power Transmission (up 2.32 per cent) , HEG (up 2.0 per cent) , Siemens (up 1.88 per cent) , Graphite India (up 1.66 per cent) , Havells India (up 1.56 per cent) , Bharat Electronics (up 1.52 per cent) , Sadbhav Engineering (up 1.08 per cent) , AIA Engineering (up 0.75 per cent) , Finolex Cables (up 0.64 per cent) , Solar Industries India (up 0.59 per cent) , V-Guard Industries (up 0.31 per cent) and Carborundum Universal (up 0.3 per cent) were among the top gainers.
The S-P BSE Capital Goods index was trading 0.27 per cent up at 17455.31 around 11:40 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 4.50 points at 12351.0 , while the BSE Sensex was up 1.59 points at 41934.15 .
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 22 were trading in the green, while 28 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Edelweiss Fin, IDFC First Bank Ltd., SBI, PNB, SAIL, Adani Green Energy Ltd., Bharti Infratel and Bharti Airtel were among the most traded shares on the NSE.