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

Shares of HEG (down 5.06 per cent), Graphite India (down 3.97 per cent), Sadbhav Engineering (down 1.88 per cent) and Schaeffler India (down 1.76 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

Larsen & Toubro (down 1.76 per cent), NBCC (India) (down 1.59 per cent), Bharat Heavy Electricals (down 1.58 per cent) and Lakshmi Machine Works (down 1.28 per cent) too were trading in the red.

The S&P BSE Capital Goods index was trading 1.19 per cent down at 17,094.78 around 12:04 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 87.60 points at 10,915.90 while the BSE Sensex was down 296.59 points at 36,826.72.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 15 were trading in the green, while 35 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, SAIL, Tata Motors, BEL, JSPL, Graphite India, Dish TV India, L&T Fin Holding and MMTC were among the most traded shares on the NSE.