Share market update: OMCs trade in the green; IOC up nearly 2%

NEW DELHI: OMCs were trading in the green in Thursday's afternoon trading session.

Shares of Indian Oil Corporation (up 1.81 per cent), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (up 1.66 per cent), GAIL (India) (up 1.52 per cent) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation (up 1.02 per cent) were the top performers in the index.

Petronet LNG (up 0.95 per cent), Oil And Natural Gas Corporation (up 0.62 per cent) and Reliance Industries (up 0.45 per cent) too were trading higher.


The S&P BSE Oil & Gas index was trading 0.98 per cent up at 13,554.13 around 12:27 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 7.80 points at 10,898.10 while the BSE Sensex was up 27.16 points at 36,348.45.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 27 were trading in the green, while 23 were in the red.

Shares of Reliance Communications, YES Bank, PowerGrid, IDFC First Bank, Jet Airways, Vakrangee, SBI, JP Associates, JSPL and South Indian Bank were among most the most traded shares on the NSE.