Share market update: Metal shares down; SAIL slips over 4%

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Metal shares were trading in the negative zone with the Nifty Metal index down 0.98 per cent at 3055.05 on Friday
Shares of Steel Authority of India (SAIL) (down 4.43 per cent), Jindal Steel Power (down 1.84 per cent), NMDC (down 1.62 per cent) and
Coal India (down 1.45 per cent) were the worst performers in the index
JSW Steel (down 1.24 per cent), Tata Steel (down 0.97 per cent), Hindustan Copper (down 0.95 per cent) and Jindal Stainless (Hisar) (down
0.86 per cent) too were trading in the red
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 38 points at 10,639.15 while BSE Sensex was up 198.44 points at 35,510.57 around 02:26 pm
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 24 were trading in the green, while 26 were in the red
Shares of YES Bank, Kotak Bank, Sun Pharma, SAIL, Bank of Baroda, Ashok Leyland, ICICI Bank, Tata Motors, LT Fin Holding, Axis Bank, HCL
Tech, BHEL, Indian Oil Corp and NTPC were among the most traded shares on the NSE.