NEW DELHI: Most capital goods stocks were trading in the positive territory in afternoon trade on Tuesday.
The BSE Capital Goods index was trading 1.58 per cent up at 17,988 around 12:55 pm.
Finolex Cables (up 5.30 per cent) was the top gainer in the capital goods index.Kalpataru Power Transmissions (up 4.61 per cent), NBCC (India) (up 4.23 per cent), Suzlon Energy (up 3.90 per cent), Dilip Buildcon (up 3.89 per cent), BHEL (up 3.82 per cent) and Elgi Equipments (up 3.60 per cent) were up next.BEML (up 2.90 per cent), Carborundum Universal (up 2.33 per cent), Schaeffler India (up 2.27 per cent), ABB India (up 2.19 per cent), Larsen Toubro (up 2.08 per cent), Bharat Electronics (up 1.95 per cent), CG Power and Industrial Solutions (up 1.32 per cent), Thermax (up 1.26 per cent), GE TD India (up 1.02 per cent), V-Guard Industries (up 0.93 per cent), SKF India (up 0.89 per cent) and Siemens (up 0.74 per cent) too were among the gainers.However, Graphite India (down 3.22 per cent), HEG (down 2.97 per cent), Havells India (down 1.54 per cent) and Sadbhav Engineering (down 0.71 per cent) were the losers in the index.
Gains in Larsen Toubro, Infosys, Maruti Suzuki and Asian Paints were driving the Sensex index up.However, the rise of the equity barometer was capped by losses in Reliance Industries, Kotak Mahindra Bank and Tata Consultancy Services.
Benchmark BSE Sensex was up 54 points at 36,773, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 28 points at 11,112.