NEW DELHI: The Nifty Metal index was trading 0.11 per cent up at 3231.35 on Tuesday with its components trading on a mixed note. Shares of APL Apollo Tubes (up 1.30 per cent), Coal India (up 0.94 per cent), Vedanta (up 0.59 per cent) and MOIL (up 0.36 per cent) were the top performers in the index.

Jindal Steel Power (down 3.06 per cent), Steel Authority of India (SAIL) (down 1.41 per cent), NMDC (down 0.93 per cent) and JSW Steel (down 0.37 per cent) were the top laggards in the index.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 10.40 points at 10,873.35 while BSE Sensex was down 83.39 points at 36,157.61.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 28 were trading in the green, while 22 were in the red. Shares of YES Bank, Sun Pharma, Idea Cellular, Bank of Baroda, ICICI Bank, Ashok Leyland, Indiabulls Housing Finance, LT Fin Holding, SBI, Tata Motors, Hindalco Industries, Vedanta, Indian Oil Corp, ONGC and SAIL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.