NEW DELHI: Shares of Welspun Corp (up 1.31 per cent), ABB India (up 1.21 per cent), Havells India (up 1.05 per cent), AIA Engineering (up 1.03 per cent), Larsen & Toubro (up 0.90 per cent) and V-Guard Industries (up 0.86 per cent) were trading up in afternoon trade on Wednesday.

The S&P BSE Capital Goods index was trading 0.25 per cent up at 18,372 around 01:15 pm (IST).

Shares of Bharat Heavy Electricals (down 3.22 per cent), Finolex Cables (down 2.77 per cent), CG Power and Industrial Solutions (down 2.33 per cent), Lakshmi Machine Works (down 1.33 per cent), NBCC (India) (down 1.22 per cent), Greaves Cotton (down 1.18 per cent), Carborundum Universal (down 1.14 per cent) and Siemens (down 0.70 per cent) were trading in the negative zone around that time.

Benchmark BSE Sensex was 8 points down at 33,362, while the NSE Nifty50 index was 14 points down at 10,336.

Among the 51 stocks in the Nifty50 index, 22 were trading in the green, while 26 were in the red.

Cipla, Axis Bank, Sun Pharma, Asian Paints, Tata Consultancy Services, Mahindra & Mahindra and Larsen & Toubro were among the top gainers in the Sensex index.

On the other hand, Bharti Airtel, Reliance Industries, Tata Motors, NTPC, State Bank of India and Hero MotoCorp were among the top losers.