Stock market update: Mining stocks up as market falls

NEW DELHI: Mining stocks were trading higher on Friday at 10:34AM

Oriental Trimex(up 4.79%), MOIL(up 4.76%), Orissa Minerals Development Company(up 2.58%), KIOCL(up 2.27%), 20 Microns(up 0.86%), Pokarna(up 0.79%), Madhav Marbles and Granites(up 0.70%), Aro Granite Industries(up 0.67%), NMDC Ltd(up 0.63%) and Coal India(up 0.53%) were among the top gainers.

Dvpt Corporation(down 0.38%) and Ashapura Minechem(down 0.27%) were among the top losers.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 110.8 points down at 18701.7, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was down 378.87 points at 62905.32 at around 10:34AM.

Oil & Natural Gas Corporation(up 1.46%), Enterprises(up 0.96%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone(up 0.86%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation(up 0.65%), Coal India(up 0.53%), IndusInd Bank(up 0.24%), Tata Steel(up 0.23%), Reliance Industries(up 0.17%), State Bank of India(up 0.09%) and Tech Mahindra(up 0.09%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Eicher Motors(down 2.54%), Mahindra & Mahindra(down 1.67%), Bajaj Auto(down 1.62%), Divis Laboratories(down 1.56%), Tata Consultancy(down 1.53%), TATA CONSUMER PRODUCTS(down 1.48%), SBI Life(down 1.46%), Asian Paints(down 1.17%), Bajaj Finance(down 1.15%) and Hindustan Unilever(down 1.11%) were trading in the red.