NEW DELHI: Metal shares were trading in the negative zone in Thursday's morning session. Shares of Vedanta (down 2.70 per cent), Welspun Corp (down 2.35 per cent), Coal India (down 1.74 per cent) and JSW Steel (down 1.64 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

Hindustan Zinc (down 1.41 per cent), Hindalco Industries (down 1.40 per cent), Tata Steel (down 1.30 per cent) and National Aluminium Company (down 1.26 per cent) were trading with losses.

The Nifty Metal index was trading 1.58 per cent down at 2803.90 around 10:40 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 22.45 points at 11,665.05 while the BSE Sensex was down 59.68 points at 39,155.96.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 16 were trading in the green, while 34 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Dish TV India, Vodafone Idea, Adani Power, Wipro, Bank of Baroda, Mindtree, Tata Motors, PNB and SBI were among the most traded shares on the NSE.