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

Shares of Jindal Steel & Power (up 11.44 per cent) , JSW Steel (up 6.32 per cent) , NMDC Ltd (up 4.0 per cent) , Hindalco Industries (up 3.44 per cent) , Steel Authority of India (up 2.2 per cent) , Tata Steel (up 1.77 per cent) , Coal India (up 1.68 per cent) , National Aluminium Company (up 1.67 per cent) , Hindustan Zinc (up 0.7 per cent) and Hindustan Copper (up 0.2 per cent) were among the top gainers.

The Nifty Metal index was trading 2.59 per cent up at 1754.7 around 02:22PM.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 26.80 points at 9012.45, while the BSE Sensex was down 113.71 points at 30558.88.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 24 were trading in the green, while 25 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel, IDFC First Bank Ltd., JSPL, ITC, Tata Power, Adani Power, SBI, ICICI Bank and BHEL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.