NEW DELHI: Metal mining stocks were shining during Thursday's session, boosting the sectoral index on NSE.The Nifty Metal index was trading as the top gainer among the sectoral indices on NSE.The metal pack was trading 1.21 per cent up at 3,678.25 around 10:52 am, with shares of Hindustan Copper (up 5.17 per cent) as top gainers.
Jindal Steel Power (up 2.14 per cent), Tata Steel (up 2.06 per cent), Steel Authority of India (SAIL) (up 1.81 per cent) and JSW Steel (up 1.70 per cent) also pocketed decent gains.
Jindal Stainless (Hisar) (up 1.59 per cent), National Aluminium Company (Nalco) (up 1.04 per cent), Hindalco Industries (up 0.91 per cent), Vedanta (up 0.79 per cent), Coal India (up 0.72 per cent) and NMDC (up 0.28 per cent) too found themselves among gainers.
However, APL Apollo Tubes (down 0.55 per cent), MOIL (down 0.52 per cent) and Hindustan Zinc (down 0.18 per cent) were in the green around that time.
Equity market sentiment was subdued on the last day of August series of futures and options contracts.
Rupee's unabated fall too weighed on the risk appetite of investors.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 20.05 points at 11,671.85, while the BSE Sensex was -36.18 points at 38686.75.Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 25 were trading in the green, while 24 were in the red.
Tata Steel, UPL, ITC, Bharti Airtel and ONGC were among the top gainers, while HPCL, YES Bank, Tech Mahindra, HCL Technologies and Reliance Industries were among the top losers in the Nifty index.