NEW DELHI: A majority of capital goods stocks were suffering losses in afternoon trade on Tuesday.The BSE Capital Goods was trading 0.20 per cent down at 18,284 around 02:25 pm.
HEG (down 6.12 per cent), Graphite India (down 5 per cent), BEML (down 4 per cent) and CG Power and Industrial Solutions (down 3.57 per cent) were the top losers in the capital goods index.
V-Guard Industries (down 2.58 per cent), Bharat Electronics (down 2.26 per cent), Bharat Heavy Electricals (down 2.07 per cent), Carborundum Universal (down 1.99 per cent), Dilip Buildcon (down 1.91 per cent), Thermax (down 1.45 per cent), NBCC (India) (down 1.40 per cent), Suzlon Energy (down 1.09 per cent), Lakshmi Machine Works (down 1.06 per cent) and Sadbhav Engineering (down 1.01 per cent) too found themselves among the losers.
However, Havells India (up 1.42 per cent), Siemens (up 0.77 per cent), Finolex Cables (up 0.73 per cent), Kalpataru Power Transmissions (up 0.55 per cent), AIA Engineering (up 0.55 per cent) and Larsen Toubro (up 0.53 per cent) were trading with gains.Market was trading almost flat as gains in HDFC twins, Infosys and Maruti were offset by losses in Adani Ports, Axis Bank, Reliance Industries and State Bank of India.
The BSE Sensex was up 47 points at 37,738, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 16 points at 11,403.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 26 were trading in the green, while 24 were in the red.
In the Sensex index, 15 stocks were advancing, while 16 were declining in trade.Tata Steel, NTPC and Asian Paints were leading among Sensex scrips.However, Adani Ports, Coal India and Axis Bank were leading among Sensex losers.