Share market update: Metal shares decline; MOIL slips over 4%

NEW DELHI: Metal shares were trading with losses in Thursday's morning session.

Shares of Hindustan Copper (down 6.39 per cent), MOIL (down 4.53 per cent), NMDC (down 3.94 per cent) and Vedanta (down 3.54 per cent) were trading in the red.

Coal India (down 2.86 per cent), National Aluminium Company (down 2.68 per cent), Jindal Stainless (Hisar) (down 2.64 per cent) and APL Apollo Tubes (down 1.96 per cent) too were trading lower.


The Nifty Metal index was trading 2.17 per cent down at 2233.70 around 10:35 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 75.50 points at 10,843.20 while the BSE Sensex was down 214.97 points at 36,845.40.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 7 were trading in the green, while 43 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, DLF, LIC Housing Finance, Tata Motors, SAIL, Motherson Sumi, NMDC and Ashok Leyland were among the most traded shares on the NSE.