Share market update: Metal shares advance; Welspun Corp rises over 2%

NEW DELHI: Most metal shares were trading in the positive zone in Friday's morning session.

Shares of Welspun Corp (up 2.53 per cent), Jindal Steel & Power (up 0.80 per cent), NMDC (up 0.74 per cent) and National Aluminium Company (up 0.70 per cent) were trading in the green.

Steel Authority of India (SAIL) (up 0.58 per cent), Jindal Stainless (Hisar) (up 0.44 per cent), Coal India (up 0.35 per cent) and MOIL (up 0.31 per cent) too were trading higher.

The Nifty Metal index was trading 0.10 per cent up at 2920.15 around 10:42 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 8.20 points at 11,310.0 while the BSE Sensex was up 52.44 points at 37,611.35.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 23 were trading in the green, while 27 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, PC Jeweller, Tata Motors, Voltas, ZEEL, Dish TV India, Ashok Leyland, DHFL and Federal Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.