Share market update: Metal shares up; MOIL, Vedanta among top gainers

NEW DELHI: Metal shares were trading in the positive zone with the Nifty Metal index up 0.22 per cent at 3105.35 around 12:19 pm on Thursday.

Shares of Hindustan Copper (up 2.21 per cent), MOIL (up 1.25 per cent), Hindalco Industries (up 1.21 per cent) and National Aluminium Company (up 1.11 per cent) were the top performers in the index.

Vedanta (up 0.76 per cent), Jindal Stainless (Hisar) (up 0.64 per cent) and Welspun Corp (up 0.35 per cent) too were trading in the green.


Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 78.50 points at 10,808.35 while the BSE Sensex was up 268.73 points at 35,918.67.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 35 were trading in the green, while 15 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Indian Oil Corp, Infosys, Vedanta, Vodafone Idea, Bank of Baroda, RIL, SBI, BEL, Axis Bank, Sun Pharma, ICICI Bank, SAIL, HPCL and BHEL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.