Share market update: OMCs trade in the green; GAIL rises over 2%

NEW DELHI: OMCs were trading in the green in Friday's morning session with their sectoral index on BSE trading higher.

Shares of GAIL (India) (up 2.41 per cent), Indraprastha Gas (up 2.07 per cent), Petronet LNG (up 1.23 per cent) and Castrol India (up 0.54 per cent) were the top performers in the index.

Bharat Petroleum Corporation (up 0.42 per cent), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (up 0.25 per cent) and Oil India (up 0.23 per cent) too were trading higher.


The S&P BSE Oil & Gas index was trading 0.19 per cent up at 14,826.49 around 11:43 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 12.05 points at 11,584.65 while the BSE Sensex was down 8.58 points at 38,598.43.

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

Shares of Reliance Communications, Vakrangee, Reliance Power, Suzlon Energy, Adani Power, Infibeam Avenues, PowerGrid, BHEL and CG Power were among the most traded shares on the NSE.