NEW DELHI: The BSE Capital Goods was trading 1.1 per cent down at 18,817 around 12:20 pm (IST) on Monday, with shares of Graphite India (down 4.89 per cent) as the top losers.

Shares of Reliance Naval and Engineering (down 3.30 per cent), Mahindra CIE Automotive (down 2.53 per cent), Welspun Corp (down 2.52 per cent), NBCC (India) (down 2.50 per cent), Kalpataru Power Transmissions (down 2.27 per cent), Schaeffler India (down 2.18 per cent), Lakshmi Machine Works (down 2.06 per cent), CG Power and Industrial Solutions (down 2.01 per cent), BEML (down 1.47 per cent), Carborundum Universal (down 1.45 per cent) and ABB India (down 1.43 per cent) were also in the red around that time.

Weak Asian cues and import tariffs on steel and aluminium in the United States weighed on benchmark indices.

The BSE Sensex was 312 points down at 33,735, while the NSE Nifty50 index was down 110 points at 10,349.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty50 index, 4 were trading in the green, while 46 were in the red.

Tata Consultancy Services was trading with a gain of 1 per cent in the Sensex index.

On the other hand, Tata Motors and Tata Steel cracked over 3 per cent in the Sensex index.