NEW DELHI: The BSE Capital Goods index was trading 1 per cent up at 19,451 around 01:45 pm (IST), with shares of Lakshmi Machine Works (up 5.55 per cent) and Welspun Corp (up 3.83 per cent) as top gainers.Shares of CG Power and Industrial Solutions (up 2.84 per cent), Kalpataru Power Transmissions (up 2.73 per cent), SKF India (up 2.13 per cent), Siemens (up 1.98 per cent), Graphite India (up 1.84 per cent), BHEL (up 1.21 per cent), Larsen Toubro (up 1.10 per cent) and V-Guard Industries (up 1.07 per cent) were the top gainers in the capital goods index.However, Sadbhav Engineering (down 2.17 per cent), Bharat Electronics (down 1.43 per cent), Finolex Cables (down 0.43 per cent), NBCC (India) (down 0.38 per cent), Reliance Naval and Engineering (down 0.28 per cent) and BEML (down 0.17 per cent) were in the red in the index around that time.
Equity benchmarks were in the green on across the board buying, while IT, bank and metal stocks leading.The NSE Nifty50 index was up 44 points at 10,736, while the BSE Sensex was up 179 points at 35,149.
In the Sensex index, 26 stocks were trading with gains, while 5 were losing in trade.Axis Bank, Reliance Industries and ICICI Bank were the top losers in the Sensex kitty.On the other hand, YES Bank, Hindustan Unilever and TCS were the top gainers in the Sensex index.