NEW DELHI: Shares of metal companies were trading in the green in Tuesday's session.

Shares of Vedanta (up 5.18 per cent), APL Apollo Tubes (up 3.44 per cent), Jindal Steel & Power (up 3.29 per cent), Hindalco Industries (up 3.11 per cent) and JSW Steel (up 3.0 per cent) were among the top gainers.

Coal India (up 2.63 per cent), MOIL (up 2.58 per cent), Tata Steel (up 2.33 per cent), Steel Authority of India (up 1.58 per cent) and Welspun Corp (up 1.39 per cent) too were trading with gains.

The Nifty Metal index was trading 2.81 per cent up at 2,259.35 around 11:10 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 69.10 points at 11,201.85, while the BSE Sensex was up 176.28 points at 38,320.3.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 42 were trading in the green, while 8 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Tata Motors, SBI, Indiabulls Housing, Vedanta , GMR Infra, Ashok Leyland, PFC and SAIL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.