NEW DELHI: Coal India (number of shares traded: 0.61 crore), Ashok Leyland (0.52 crore) and Idea Cellular (0.20 crore) were trading as the most active stocks in terms of volume on NSE in morning trade on Tuesday.

NMDC (0.20 crore), SAIL (0.15 crore), State Bank of India (0.13 crore), NHPC (0.12 crore), Tata Motors (0.11 crore), YES Bank (0.09 crore), ITC (0.09 crore) and Punjab National Bank (0.09 crore) were also among the most traded stocks.

Domestic equity markets opened in green following global cues. Both Nifty50 and Sensex hit fresh 52-week highs of 10,659 and 34,488, respectively.

However markets cooled off a bit due to selling in IT, pharma and bank stocks. The NSE Nifty index was trading 7 points up at 10,631, while BSE Sensex was up 66 points at 34,418 around 09:30 am (IST).

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In the Nifty50 index, Coal India, Tata Steel, Tata Motors, GAIL (India), Kotak Mahindra Bank and Mahindra & Mahindra were trading among the top gainers.

However, Zee Entertainment Enterprises, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, Eicher Motors, Tech Mahindra and YES Bank were trading among the losers.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty50 index, 20 were trading in the green, while 30 were trading in the red.