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

Shares of HEG (up 20 per cent), Graphite India (up 18.45 per cent), AIA Engineering (up 2.19 per cent) and Hindustan Aeronautics (up 1.83 per cent) were trading higher.

Bharat Heavy Electricals (down 2.03 per cent), Solar Industries India (down 1.78 per cent), Larsen & Toubro (down 1.67 per cent) and Carborundum Universal (down 1.50 per cent) were trading lower.

The S&P BSE Capital Goods index was trading 0.78 per cent down at 17,286.41 around 02:54 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 93.80 points at 10,982.10 while the BSE Sensex was down 311.59 points at 37,073.40.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 11 were trading in the green, while 39 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Biocon, Tata Motors, Equitas Holdings, NBCC, Tata Power, Graphite India, SAIL and Indian Oil Corp were among the most traded securities on the NSE.