Share market update: PSU shares trade higher; SAIL gains 3%

NEW DELHI: Shares of PSU were trading with gains in Tuesday's afternoon session.

Shares of Steel Authority of India (up 3.55 per cent) , National Aluminium Company (up 1.77 per cent) , Bharat Petroleum Corporation (up 1.74 per cent) , Coal India (up 1.58 per cent) , National Mineral Development Corp (up 1.17 per cent) , Bharat Heavy Electricals (up 0.66 per cent) , NHPC (up 0.63 per cent) , Power Grid Corporation of India (up 0.53 per cent) , HPCL (up 0.32 per cent) , General Insurance (up 0.28 per cent) and Container Corporation of India (up 0.21 per cent) were among the top gainers.

The Nifty PSE index was trading 0.25 per cent up at 3160.25 around 12:04 pm.


Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 82.10 points at 12136.05 , while the BSE Sensex was up 292.16 points at 41230.88 .

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 36 were trading in the green, while 13 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Ltd., SAIL, JSPL, Trident Ltd, Tata Steel, Vedanta and Tata Motors were among the most traded shares on the NSE.