NEW DELHI: Gains in shares of National Aluminium Company (Nalco) (up 2.87 per cent), Hindalco Industries (up 1.70 per cent), JSW Steel (up 1.41 per cent), Hindustan Zinc (up 1.13 per cent) and Vedanta (up 1.09 per cent) were keeping the metal index in the green in afternoon trade on Wednesday.The BSE Metal index was trading 0.41 per cent up at 13,651 around 02:25 pm.
However, NMDC (down 1.78 per cent), Coal India (down 1.77 per cent), Steel Authority of India (SAIL) (down 0.98 per cent), Jindal Steel Power (down 0.59 per cent) and Tata Steel (down 0.48 per cent) were incurring losses around that time.Benchmark BSE Sensex was 290 points down at 37,868, while the NSE Nifty50 index was down 99 points at 11,421.Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 13 were trading in the green, while 37 were in the red.
In the Sensex kitty of stocks, only eight stocks were advancing, while 23 were declining in trade.YES Bank, Wipro and Vedanta were trading up in the Sensex index.HUL, Bharti Airtel and Reliance Industries were among the top losers in the Sensex index.