NEW DELHI: Metal mining counters were witnessing decent buying during Tuesday's session.The Nifty Metal index was trading as the top gainer among the sectoral indices on NSE.
The index was 2.45 per cent up at 3,216 around 11 am.Shares of Jindal Steel Power (up 4.45 per cent), Nalco (up 4.01 per cent), Hindalco Industries (up 3.62 per cent) and Jindal Stainless (Hisar) (up 3.57 per cent) jumped up to 4 per cent.JSW Steel (up 3.33 per cent), Hindustan Copper (up 3.04 per cent), Vedanta (up 2.58 per cent) and NMDC (up 2.36 per cent) climbed up to 3 per cent.Coal India (up 1.95 per cent), MOIL (up 1.74 per cent), Steel Authority of India (SAIL) (up 1.65 per cent), Tata Steel (up 1.55 per cent), Hindustan Zinc (up 0.92 per cent) and APL Apollo Tubes (up 0.64 per cent) too were gaining.Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 47 points at 11,132, while the BSE Sensex was up 129 points at 36,848.Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 33 were trading in the green, while 17 were in the red.
Grasim Industries, Ultratech Cement, Indiabulls Housing Finance, Hindalco Industries and Lupin were among the top gainers in the Nifty index.On the other hand, Bajaj Finance, Cipla, Hindustan Unilever, Bajaj Finserv and Wipro were among the top losers.