INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Gains in Hindalco Industries (up 3.76 per cent), Nalco (up 2.82 per cent), Jindal Steel Power (up 2.76 per cent) and Tata Steel
(up 2.71 per cent) gave a boost to BSE Metal index during afternoon trade on Friday.
The BSE Metal index was trading 2.06 per cent up at
Shares of NMDC (up 2.17 per cent), Vedanta (up 2.07 per cent), Coal India (up 1.46 per cent), Steel Authority of India (SAIL) (up 0.99 per
cent), JSW Steel (up 0.46 per cent) and Hindustan Zinc (up 0.11 per cent) were also among the gainers.
Equity benchmarks were trading up on
buying across sectors as the July derivatives contracts started on a strong note amid recovery in the rupee.
The BSE Sensex was up 292
points at 35,329, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 95 points at 10,684.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 40 were trading in the
green, while 10 were in the red
In the Sensex index, 24 stocks were advancing, while 7 were declining.
Tata Steel, Reliance Industries, Bajaj Auto, ONGC, Vedanta and
Larsen Toubro climbed over 2 per cent in the Sensex index.
