Share market update: BSE Capital Goods index rises; BEL gains over 2%

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

Shares of Bharat Electronics (up 2.66 per cent), V-Guard Industries (up 2.54 per cent), AIA Engineering (up 2.25 per cent) and Sadbhav Engineering (up 1.95 per cent) were the top performers in the index.

Thermax (up 1.79 per cent), Bharat Heavy Electricals (up 1.46 per cent), ABB India (up 1.43 per cent) and Siemens (up 1.22 per cent) too were trading higher.

The S&P BSE Capital Goods index was trading 0.13 per cent up at 19,556.58 around 12:15 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 8.55 points at 11,835.20 while the BSE Sensex was down 49.37 points at 39,480.35.

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

Shares of Indiabulls RE, SAIL, DHFL, YES Bank, PC Jeweller, PNB, Reliance Capital, Suzlon Energy, Manappuram Finance and NALCO were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

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