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

NEW DELHI: OMCs were trading lower in Tuesday's session with their sectoral index on BSE trading lower.

Shares of Castrol India (down 1.63 per cent ) , Oil And Natural Gas Corporation (down 0.90 per cent ) , Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (down 0.85 per cent ) and Indian Oil Corporation (down 0.54 per cent ) were the top losers in the index.

Reliance Industries (down 0.45 per cent ) , GAIL (India) (down 0.43 per cent ) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation (down 0.36 per cent ) too were trading lower.


The S&P BSE Oil & Gas index was trading 0.41 per cent down at 15,056.37 around 10:55 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 41.15 points at 12,007.05, while the BSE Sensex was down 111.79 points at 40,690.38.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 17 were trading in the green, while 33 were in the red.

Shares of Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals, Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, NCC, Bank of Baroda, NBCC , TCS, BHEL and ZEEL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.