NEW DELHI: Metal mining stocks were among the top casualties during Thursday's sell-off.
The Nifty Metal index was trading 4.06 per cent down at 3,299 around 10:30 am with all components in the red.
Jindal Steel Power (down 6.38 per cent), Tata Steel (down 5.47 per cent), Hindalco Industries (down 4.67 per cent), Vedanta (down 4.24 per cent) and JSW Steel (down 4.07 per cent) were the top losers in the metal pack on NSE.Steel Authority of India (SAIL) (down 3.74 per cent), Jindal Stainless (Hisar) (down 3.57 per cent), NMDC (down 3.14 per cent) and APL Apollo Tubes (down 3.13 per cent) were up next among the losers.Hindustan Zinc (down 2.54 per cent), Coal India (down 2.33 per cent), MOIL (down 2.31 per cent), Hindustan Copper (down 2.11 per cent) and Nalco (down 1.27 per cent) fell in that order.Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 266 points at 10,195, while the BSE Sensex was 844 points down at 33,917.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 6 were trading in the green, while 44 were in the red.
HPCL, BPCL, Zee Entertainment, Bharti Infratel, ONGC and GAIL (India) were the Nifty gainers.Indiabulls Housing Finance, Tata Steel, Bajaj Finserv, State Bank of India, Bajaj Finance, Grasim Industries and Hindalco Industries were the top losers in the Nifty kitty of stocks.