NEW DELHI: Metal shares were trading with losses in Tuesday's session.

Shares of Jindal Steel & Power (down​ 8.66 per cent)​, Hindalco Industries (down​ 7.51 per cent)​, Tata Steel (down​ 7.37 per cent)​, MOIL (down​ 6.86 per cent)​, Hindustan Copper (down​ 6.83 per cent)​, Steel Authority of India (down​ 6.8 per cent)​, Vedanta (down​ 5.28 per cent)​, JSW Steel (down​ 5.01 per cent)​, APL Apollo Tubes (down​ 4.99 per cent)​, Welspun Corp (down​ 4.96 per cent)​, Coal India (down​ 3.78 per cent)​, Hindustan Zinc (down​ 3.67 per cent)​, NMDC Ltd (down​ 3.64 per cent)​, Ratnamani Metals & Tubes (down​ 3.04 per cent)​ and National Aluminium Company (down​ 2.05 per cent)​ were the top losers in the index.

The Nifty Metal index was trading 5.45 per cent down at 1660.75 around 02:01 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 313.40 points at 8948.45 , while the BSE Sensex was down 1134.93 points at 30513.07.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 7 were trading in the green, while 43 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Tata Motors, SBI, ICICI Bank, Vedanta , Aurobindo Pharma, JSPL and Axis Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.