Share market update: OMCs trade in the red; BPCL dips over 1%

NEW DELHI: OMCs were trading in the red Thursday's afternoon session with their sectoral index on BSE trading lower.

Shares of Petronet LNG (down 2.46 per cent) , Bharat Petroleum Corporation (down 1.62 per cent) , GAIL (India) (down 1.39 per cent) and Oil India (down 1.35 per cent) were trading with losses.

Oil And Natural Gas Corporation (down 1.06 per cent) , Reliance Industries (down 0.86 per cent) and Castrol India (down 0.39 per cent) too were trading with losses.


The S&P BSE Oil & Gas index was trading 0.86 per cent down at 14,732.34 around 11:48 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 9.80 points at 11,634.15 while the BSE Sensex was down 43.41 points at 38,833.71.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 25 were trading in the green, while 25 were in the red.

Shares of Wipro, Reliance Communications, Vodafone Idea, Dish TV India, Indian Energy Exchange, Suzlon Energy, Laksmi Vilas Bank, Adani Power, Reliance Power and YES Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.