NEW DELHI: The BSE Capital Goods index was trading 0.20 per cent up at 19,113 around 12:15 pm (IST), with shares of Graphite India (up 4.54 per cent) as the top gainers.

Shares of Havells India (up 1.85 per cent), Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) (up 1.39 per cent), Welspun Corp (up 0.88 per cent), AIA Engineering (up 0.85 per cent), BEML (up 0.76 per cent), GE T&D India (up 0.55 per cent), NBCC (India) (up 0.46 per cent), Schaeffler India (up 0.43 per cent), Kalpataru Power Transmissions (up 0.28 per cent), Finolex Cables (up 0.19 per cent) and Larsen & Toubro (up 0.06 per cent) were also among the gainers in the capital goods index.

However, shares of CG Power and Industrial Solutions (down 1.38 per cent), Reliance Naval and Engineering (down 1.36 per cent), Thermax (down 1.29 per cent), Lakshmi Machine Works (down 0.85 per cent), Bharat Electronics (down 0.68 per cent), SKF India (down 0.65 per cent), ABB India (down 0.47 per cent), Suzlon Energy (down 0.31 per cent), Mahindra CIE Automotive (down 0.21 per cent), V-Guard Industries (down 0.19 per cent), Carborundum Universal (down 0.10 per cent) and Sadbhav Engineering (down 0.05 per cent) were among the losers in the index around the same time.

Equity benchmarks were down, tracking global cues. Investors were cautious after the fiscal deficit data reached at 113.7 per cent of the full year's target.

The NSE Nifty50 index was 11 points down at 10,481, while the BSE Sensex was 59 points down at 34,125.

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

ICICI Bank, Infosys and State Bank of India declined over 1 per cent in the Sensex index.

On the other hand, Bharti Airtel, Tata Motors, Axis Bank and Mahindra & Mahindra climbed up to 1 per cent in the Sensex kitty of stocks.