Share market update: Metal shares decline; NMDC dips 3%

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

Shares of NMDC (down 2.88 per cent) , Steel Authority of India (SAIL) (down 2.09 per cent) , MOIL (down 1.26 per cent) and Jindal Steel & Power (down 1.07 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

JSW Steel (down 0.96 per cent) , APL Apollo Tubes (down 0.65 per cent) , Tata Steel (down 0.41 per cent) and Hindustan Zinc (down 0.24 per cent) too were trading in the red.


The Nifty Metal index was trading 0.29 per cent down at 2290.50 around 10:37 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 36.65 points at 11,211.40 while the BSE Sensex was up 182.73 points at 37,856.04.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 22 were trading in the green, while 28 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, ZEEL, BPCL, SBI, Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, Bank of Baroda and SAIL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.