Share market update: Metal shares bullish; Welspun Corp climbs over 2%

NEW DELHI: Metal shares were trading with gains in Tuesday's morning session.

Shares of Welspun Corp (up 2.44 per cent), APL Apollo Tubes (up 1.52 per cent), Hindalco Industries (up 1.15 per cent) and Coal India (up 1.12 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.

Vedanta (up 0.76 per cent), NMDC (up 0.72 per cent), Hindustan Zinc (up 0.37 per cent) and Jindal Stainless (Hisar) (up 0.34 per cent) too were trading with gains.


The Nifty Metal index was trading 0.52 per cent up at 3157.70 around 10:32 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 88.05 points at 11,778.40 while the BSE Sensex was up 340.26 points at 39,246.10.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 41 were trading in the green, while 9 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, ICICI Bank, Coal India, DLF, Indian Oil Corp, SAIL, YES Bank, Infosys, Motherson Sumi, BHEL, Vedanta, Wipro and SBI were among the most traded shares on the NSE.