NEW DELHI: Shares of oil marketing companies (OMCs) were trading mixed during afternoon trade on Monday.
Castrol India (up 4.29 per cent), HPCL (up 1.13 per cent), Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) (up 1.12 per cent) and Petronet LNG (up 0.70 per cent) were trading with gains.However, ONGC (down 1.11 per cent), Reliance Industries (RIL) (down 0.76 per cent), Oil India (down 0.39 per cent) and GAIL (India) (down 0.35 per cent) were suffering.Shares of BPCL (up 0.09 per cent) and Indraprastha Gas (up 0.09 per cent) were almost flat around that time.
Gains in select FMCG, bank and auto stocks, including ITC, ICICI Bank, Hindustan Unilever and Maruti Suzuki, were keeping the equity benchmarks up.
The BSE Oil Gas index was trading 0.04 per cent down at 14,386 around 02:35 pm.
The BSE Sensex was up 181 points at 36,677, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 56 points at 11,066.In the Sensex index, 19 stocks were advancing, while 12 were declining.Vedanta, ITC and Maruti Suzuki were leading among Sensex gainers.