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

Shares of Graphite India (up 4.97 per cent), HEG (up 3.43 per cent), AIA Engineering (up 3.14 per cent) and Bharat Electronics (up 2.61 per cent) were trading in the green.

NBCC (India) (down 1.72 per cent), Finolex Cables (down 1.22 per cent), Schaeffler India (down 0.95 per cent) and Larsen & Toubro (down 0.73 per cent) were trading with losses.

The S&P BSE Capital Goods index was trading 0.11 per cent down at 17,678.51 around 11:49 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 39.35 points at 11,310.65 while the BSE Sensex was up 143.42 points at 37,991.07.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 31 were trading in the green, while 19 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, IDFC First Bank, Tata Motors, PNB, Bank of Baroda, Spicejet, L&T Fin Holding, SAIL and PowerGrid were among the most traded shares on the NSE.