Share market update: Metal shares shine; SAIL surges 15%

NEW DELHI: Metal shares were trading with gains in Tuesday's session.

Shares of Steel Authority of India (up 14.95 per cent), Hindalco Industries (up 6.93 per cent), Tata Steel (up 6.51 per cent), Hindustan Copper (up 6.45 per cent), VEDL (up 5.93 per cent), NMDC Ltd (up 5.86 per cent), Hindustan Zinc (up 5.71 per cent), Coal India (up 5.67 per cent), Jindal Steel & Power (up 5.56 per cent), National Aluminium Company (up 4.83 per cent), JSW Steel (up 4.04 per cent), MOIL (up 2.93 per cent) and Welspun Corp (up 0.17 per cent) were among the top gainers.

The Nifty Metal index was trading 5.68 per cent up at 1593.4 around 02:07 pm.


Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 342.55 points at 8623.65 , while the BSE Sensex was up 1135.34 points at 29575.66 .

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 47 were trading in the green, while 3 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, SBI, Tata Motors, SAIL, IndusInd Bank, Vedanta , ICICI Bank, ITC and ONGC were among the most traded shares on the NSE.