Share market update: BSE Capital Goods index up; HEG surges over 6%

NEW DELHI: The S&P BSE Capital Goods index was trading with gains in Friday's afternoon session.

Shares of HEG (up 6.77 per cent), Suzlon Energy (up 5.96 per cent), Dilip Buildcon (up 3.36 per cent) and Bharat Electronics (up 2.69 per cent) were the top performers in the index.

CG Power and Industrial Solutions (up 2.40 per cent), BEML (up 2.26 per cent), V-Guard Industries (up 2.24 per cent) and Sadbhav Engineering (up 1.91 per cent) too were trading higher.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 144.50 points at 10,975.45 while the BSE Sensex was up 489.99 points at 36746.68.

The S&P BSE Capital Goods index was trading 1.31 per cent up at 17,537.43 around 01:11 pm.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 40 were trading in the green, while 10 were in the red.

Shares of JP Associates, Reliance Communications, Vedanta, DHFL, IDBI Bank, Ashok Leyland, Suzlon Energy, YES Bank, Axis Bank, Adani Power, Jet Airways, Vakrangee, PTC India, Bank of India, Dish TV India, Lak Vilas Bank, IDFC First Bank, PowerGrid, ITC and DLF were among the most traded shares on the NSE.