NEW DELHI: Most metal stocks were trading higher in Friday's session, keeping their sectoral index on NSE in the positive zone.

Shares of Welspun Corp (up 4.38 per cent), MOIL (up 2.77 per cent), APL Apollo Tubes (up 2.04 per cent) and Vedanta (up 1.94 per cent) were the top gainers in the metal pack.

National Aluminium Company (up 1.15 per cent), Jindal Stainless (Hisar) (up 1.14 per cent), Coal India (up 1.08 per cent) and NMDC (up 1 per cent) too were trading with gains.

The Nifty Metal index was trading 0.73 per cent up at 2816.45 around 11:11 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 3.15 points at 10,786.70 while the BSE Sensex was down 29.65 points at 35,868.70.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 34 were trading in the green, while 16 were in the red.

Shares of Kotak Bank, YES Bank, Ashok Leyland, Motherson Sumi, ONGC, Indian Oil Corp, Vedanta, BEL, SAIL, Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Bank of Baroda and SBI were among the most traded shares on the NSE.