NEW DELHI: Metal mining stocks were trading mixed in Thursday's session.
National Aluminium Company (Nalco) (down 6.29 per cent), APL Apollo Tubes (down 2.13 per cent), Hindalco Industries (down 1.94 per cent), Hindustan Zinc (down 1.47 per cent) and Vedanta (down 1.07 per cent) were among the losers in the Nifty Metal index.
The Nifty Metal index was trading 0.35 per cent down at 3,610 around 11:45 pm.
Hindustan Copper (down 0.34 per cent), JSW Steel (down 0.19 per cent) and Jindal Steel Power (down 0.07 per cent) too were declining.However, MOIL (up 1.83 per cent), Tata Steel (up 1.26 per cent), NMDC (up 1.26 per cent), Jindal Stainless (Hisar) (up 1.04 per cent) and Coal India (up 0.65 per cent) were up around that time.
Shares of Steel Authority of India (SAIL) were trading flat around that time.Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 14 points at 11,491, while the BSE Sensex was up 75.2 points at 38,094.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 28 were trading in the green, while 22 were in the red.