Share market update: PSU shares up; NMDC rises 3%

NEW DELHI: Shares of PSU were trading higher in Monday's afternoon session.

Shares of NMDC (up 3.44 per cent) , National Aluminium Company (up 2.51 per cent) , Steel Authority of India (SAIL) (up 2.46 per cent) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (up 1.98 per cent) were trading with gains.

Indian Oil Corporation (up 0.89 per cent) , Container Corporation of India (up 0.84 per cent) , The New India Assurance Company (up 0.66 per cent) and Power Grid Corporation of India (up 0.53 per cent) were among the top gainers.


The Nifty PSE index was trading 0.16 per cent up at 3276.95 around 12:25 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 112.50 points at 12,026.90, while the BSE Sensex was up 377.21 points at 40,736.62.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 42 were trading in the green, while 8 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, JSPL, Aditya Birla Capital, SAIL, Bharti Airtel, DLF, NCC and Tata Steel were among the most traded shares on the NSE.