Share market update: Metal shares mixed; NMDC gains over 2%

NEW DELHI: Most metal shares were trading on a mixed note in Friday's morning session.

Shares of NMDC (up 2.17 per cent), Vedanta (up 0.68 per cent), Tata Steel (up 0.65 per cent) and National Aluminium Company (up 0.41 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.

Jindal Steel & Power (down 0.86 per cent), APL Apollo Tubes (down 0.81 per cent), Hindustan Copper (down 0.73 per cent) and MOIL (down 0.44 per cent) were trading in the red.

The Nifty Metal index was trading 0.26 per cent up at 2963.75 around 10:45 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 48 points at 11,866.05 while the BSE Sensex was down 137.39 points at 39,603.97.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 13 were trading in the green, while 37 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, GRUH Finance, Indiabulls Housing Finance, BHEL, PNB, SAIL, Bank of Baroda, Dish TV India, IDBI Bank and DLF were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

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