Share market update: Metal shares decline; Welspun Corp down 2%

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

Shares of Welspun Corp (down 2.36 per cent), Coal India (down 2.34 per cent), Jindal Stainless (Hisar) (down 2.14 per cent) and National Aluminium Company (down 1.54 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

Hindustan Zinc (down 1.39 per cent), Hindustan Copper (down 1.27 per cent), NMDC (down 0.95 per cent) and MOIL (down 0.94 per cent) too were trading lower.


The Nifty Metal index was trading 1.13 per cent down at 2818.95 around 10:35 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 143.15 points at 11,668 while the BSE Sensex was down 453 points at 39,060.39.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 6 were trading in the green, while 44 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, PNB, Vodafone Idea, Bank of Baroda, SAIL, SBI, Adani Power, NBCC, Union Bank India and JSPL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.