Stock market update: Energy shares gain; ONGC rises 2%

NEW DELHI: Shares of energy firms were in the green in Tuesday's morning trade.

Shares of Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (up 2.02 per cent), HPCL (up 1.95 per cent), Reliance Industries (up 1.8 per cent), NTPC (up 1.68 per cent) and Indian Oil Corporation (up 0.91 per cent) were among the top gainers.

Bharat Petroleum Corporation (up 0.91 per cent), Power Grid Corporation of India (up 0.68 per cent), Adani Transmissions (up 0.31 per cent) and GAIL (India) (up 0.3 per cent) too were trading with gains.


The Nifty Energy index was trading 1.33 per cent up at 13,598.05 around 10:24 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 93.85 points at 11,226.6, while the BSE Sensex was up 269.17 points at 38,413.19.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 43 were trading in the green, while 7 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Tata Motors, SBI, Indiabulls Housing, Vedanta , PFC, Ashok Leyland, Hindalco and JSPL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.