NEW DELHI: The BSE Capital Goods index was trading 0.19 per cent down at 19,946 around 12:30 pm (IST), with shares of Sadbhav Engineering (down 1.73 per cent), Larsen & Toubro (down 0.67 per cent), Siemens (down 0.60 per cent) and Thermax (down 0.47 per cent) as the top drags.

Shares of ABB India (down 0.45 per cent), AIA Engineering (down 0.43 per cent), V-Guard Industries (down 0.36 per cent) and Lakshmi Machine Works (down 0.02 per cent) were also trading down.

However, shares of Reliance Naval and Engineering (up 3.98 per cent), CG Power and Industrial Solutions (up 2.16 per cent), Kalpataru Power Transmissions (up 1.89 per cent), Finolex Cables (up 1.63 per cent), Schaeffler India (up 1.61 per cent) and Graphite India (up 1.24 per cent) were trading up in the capital goods index around that time.

Benchmark BSE Sensex was 57 points up at 34,491, while the NSE Nifty50 index was 13 points up at 10,645.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty50 index, 26 were trading in the green, while 24 were in the red.

Infosys, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Bharti Airtel and Adani Ports were among the top gainers in the Sensex index.

Axis Bank, Coal India and ICICI Bank remained among the top laggards.