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

NEW DELHI: Most metal shares were trading with gains in Tuesday's morning session.

Shares of Vedanta (up 2.60 per cent), Jindal Steel & Power (up 1.44 per cent), Steel Authority of India (SAIL) (up 1.24 per cent) and National Aluminium Company (up 1.12 per cent) were the top performers in the index.

Tata Steel (up 0.81 per cent), JSW Steel (up 0.75 per cent), NMDC (up 0.72 per cent) and Welspun Corp (up 0.32 per cent) too were trading with gains.

The Nifty Metal index was trading 0.84 per cent up at 2936.80 around 10:44 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 14.75 points at 11,937.45 while the BSE Sensex was up 68.65 points at 39,853.17.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 30 were trading in the green, while 20 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, Indiabulls Housing Finance, PNB, Dish TV India, Tata Motors, Bank of Baroda, Sterlite Tech, GMR Infra and Sun Pharma were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

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