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

Shares of Vedanta (up 1.55 per cent), APL Apollo Tubes (up 1.45 per cent), Coal India (up 0.78 per cent) and JSW Steel (up 0.54 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.

Welspun Corp (up 0.43 per cent), Jindal Stainless (Hisar) (up 0.32 per cent), Steel Authority of India (SAIL) (up 0.31 per cent) and Hindustan Copper (up 0.25 per cent) too were trading with gains.

The Nifty Metal index was trading 0.14 per cent up at 2864.40 around 10:26 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 35.10 points at 11,707.25 while the BSE Sensex was up 143.27 points at 39,104.06.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 34 were trading in the green, while 16 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, Dish TV India, SAIL, SBI, Ashok Leyland, PNB, Bank of Baroda, Tata Steel and Tata Motors were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

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