Share market update: Metal shares mixed; Jindal Stainless jumps over 6%

NEW DELHI: Metal stocks were trading on a mixed note in Monday's session, keeping their sectoral index on NSE in the positive zone.

Shares of Jindal Stainless (Hisar) (up 6.55 per cent) , APL Apollo Tubes (up 2.07 per cent) , Hindustan Copper (up 1.33 per cent) and MOIL (up 1.15 per cent) were trading in the green.

Welspun Corp (down 1.86 per cent), Steel Authority of India (SAIL) (down 1.42 per cent), National Aluminium Company (down 1.33 per cent), and Jindal Steel & Power (down 0.75 per cent) were trading lower.


The Nifty Metal index was trading 0.17 per cent up at 2847.15 around 01:04 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 30.60 points at 10,822.25 while the BSE Sensex was up 143.64 points at 36015.12.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 29 were trading in the green, while 21 were in the red.

Shares of Motherson Sumi, YES Bank, ITC, SAIL, NHPC, NTPC, BEL, SBI, ONGC, Adani Ports SEZ, PowerGrid, Tata Motors, Indian Oil Corp and DLF were among the most traded shares on the NSE.