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

Shares of Steel Authority of India (SAIL) (down 3.05 per cent), Welspun Corp (down 2.49 per cent), Jindal Stainless (Hisar) (down 1.52 per cent) and Tata Steel (down 1.45 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

Hindustan Copper (down 1.31 per cent), NMDC (down 1.07 per cent), APL Apollo Tubes (down 1.04 per cent) and MOIL (down 0.86 per cent) too were trading with losses.

The Nifty Metal index was trading 0.13 per cent down at 2817.20 around 10:54 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 13.65 points at 11,134.55 while the BSE Sensex was down 21.67 points at 37,069.15.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 18 were trading in the green, while 32 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, IDFC First Bank, PNB, Dish TV India, SAIL, PC Jeweller, Bank of Baroda, DHFL and Sun Pharma were among the most traded shares on the NSE.