NEW DELHI: Metal stocks Jindal Steel & Power (up 2.33 per cent), Tata Steel (up 1.64 per cent), Hindalco Industries (up 0.67 per cent) and Vedanta (up 0.57 per cent) were trading up during afternoon trade on Wednesday.

The Nifty Metal index was trading 0.54 per cent up at 3,709 around 02:05 pm.

Shares of MOIL (up 0.20 per cent), Nalco (up 0.19 per cent), Jindal Stainless (Hisar) (up 0.17 per cent), APL Apollo Tubes (up 0.14 per cent) and Coal India (up 0.13 per cent) were also in the green.

However, Hindustan Zinc (down 0.47 per cent), SAIL (down 0.46 per cent), Hindustan Copper (down 0.35 per cent) and NMDC (down 0.08 per cent) were in the red.

Buying in select IT, telecom, metal, bank and auto stocks were keeping the benchmark indices up.

The NSE Nifty50 index was up 33 points at 10,751, while the BSE Sensex was up 135 points at 35,351.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 29 were trading in the green, while 21 were in the red.

Tata Motors, Tata Steel and UPL were the top gainers in the Nifty index, whereas BPCL, UltraTech Cement and HPCL were among the top losers.