NEW DELHI: The BSE Capital Goods index was trading 0.10 per cent down at 19,218 around 12 pm (IST) on Tuesday, with shares of Reliance Naval and Engineering (down 3.57 per cent), SKF India (down 1.75 per cent), Bharat Electronics (down 1.42 per cent) and Siemens (down 1.10 per cent) as the top losers.

Shares of Carborundum Universal (down 0.88 per cent), Va Tech Wabag (down 0.65 per cent), Bharat Heavy Electricals (down 0.64 per cent), BEML (down 0.57 per cent), NBCC (India) (down 0.50 per cent), Suzlon Energy (down 0.31 per cent), Thermax (down 0.30 per cent) and Sadbhav Engineering (down 0.30 per cent) were also among the losers in the BSE Capital Goods index.

However, shares of Graphite India (up 5.00 per cent), Mahindra CIE Automotive (up 3.47 per cent), ABB India (up 1.34 per cent), CG Power and Industrial Solutions (up 1.27 per cent), Lakshmi Machine Works (up 1.07 per cent), Finolex Cables (up 0.97 per cent), Kalpataru Power Transmissions (up 0.86 per cent), AIA Engineering (up 0.68 per cent) and Schaeffler India (up 0.12 per cent) were the gainers in the index around that time.

Benchmark BSE Sensex was 57 points down at 34,389, while the NSE Nifty50 index was 22 points down at 10,560.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty50 index, 23 were trading in the green, while 27 were in the red.

Bharti Airtel, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, YES Bank and Hindustan Unilever were leading the Sensex kitty of stocks.

On the other hand, Axis Bank, State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, Sun Pharma and Kotak Mahindra Bank were among the top losers in the Sensex index.