Metal stocks were trading on a positive note at 11:47AM (IST) on Monday.

Shares of APL Apollo Tubes (up 3.81 per cent), Jindal Steel & Power (up 2.64 per cent), Welspun Corp (up 2.07 per cent), NMDC Ltd (up 1.56 per cent) and Tata Steel NSE 1.57 % (up 0.72 per cent) were among the top gainers.

While Ratnamani Metals & Tubes (down 1.36 per cent), Hindustan Zinc NSE -0.41 % (down 1.23 per cent), Mishra Dhatu Nigam (down 0.83 per cent), MOIL NSE -0.54 % (down 0.81 per cent) and JSW Steel (down 0.21 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

The Nifty Metal index was trading 0.56 per cent up at 2419.35 around 11:47AM.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 15.75 points at 11194.15, while the BSE Sensex was up 4.62 points at 37881.96.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 36 were trading in the green, while 14 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, Tata Motors, NTPC and SBI were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of Aditya Birla Fashion (PP), KIOCL Ltd., APL Apollo Tube, Bajaj Elec. and MindTree hit their fresh 52 week high in today’s trade, while Mittal Life Style Ltd. and Keerti Knowledge and Skills Ltd. hit fresh 52 week low in trade.