Share market update: Metal shares decline; NMDC dips nearly 1%

NEW DELHI: Metal shares were trading with losses with the Nifty metal index down in Friday's morning trading session.

Shares of NMDC (down 0.87 per cent), Coal India (down 0.78 per cent) and Hindustan Copper (down 0.60 per cent) were the worst performers in the index.

MOIL (down 0.30 per cent), Tata Steel (down 0.11 per cent) and Welspun Corp (down 0.04 per cent) too were trading lower.


The Nifty Metal index was trading 0.01 per cent down at 2962.90 around 11:49 am on Friday.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 22.90 points at 10,882.30 while the BSE Sensex was down 81.48 points at 36,292.60.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 23 were trading in the green, while 26 were in the red.

Shares of Sun Pharma, YES Bank, RIL, Bharti Airtel, ITC, BHEL, Ashok Leyland, ICICI Bank, SAIL, Vedanta , SBI, Wipro, Indian Oil Corp and Axis Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.