NEW DELHI: The Nifty Metal index was trading 0.70 per cent up at 3,669 around 02:50 pm on Monday.Shares of NMDC (up 2.33 per cent), MOIL (up 1.90 per cent), Jindal Stainless (Hisar) (up 1.48 per cent), National Aluminium Company (Nalco) (up 1.20 per cent), Hindalco Industries (up 0.86 per cent), Jindal Steel Power (up 0.75 per cent), Tata Steel (up 0.75 per cent), Coal India (up 0.65 per cent) and Vedanta (up 0.57 per cent) were among the gainers in the index.APL Apollo Tubes (down 1.82 per cent), Hindustan Copper (down 0.48 per cent) and Hindustan Zinc (down 0.45 per cent) were the losers.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 34 points down at 11,646, while the BSE Sensex was 109 points down at 38,536.Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 27 were trading in the green, while 23 were in the red.
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Reddy's Laboratories, Wipro, Titan Company, Eicher Motors and HPCL were among the top gainers, while Bajaj Finance, Hindustan Unilever, Power Grid Corporation, Axis Bank and Tech Mahindra were among the top losers in the Nifty index.