Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Real Estate, Consumer Durables and Metals sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 1.47%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 1.35%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE), which rose 5.83% or 31.90 points to trade at 578.65 at the close. Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) added 4.32% or 1072.20 points to end at 25900.00 and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (NS:MRTI) was up 3.70% or 202.80 points to 5680.10 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (NS:TCS), which lost 0.96% or 23.30 points to trade at 2407.50 in late trade. Bharti Infratel Limited (NS:BHRI) declined 0.49% or 1.800 points to end at 363.500 and Bosch Ltd (NS:BOSH) shed 0.21% or 47.85 points to 22750.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Vedanta Ltd (BO:VDAN) which rose 3.92% to 178.80, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which was up 3.70% to settle at 5681.85 and Hero MotoCorp Limited (BO:HROM) which gained 3.18% to close at 3523.00.
The worst performers were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was down 0.63% to 2411.80 in late trade, Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which lost 0.02% to settle at 1037.85 and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which was up 0.12% to 868.80 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1327 to 170 and 47 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2185 rose and 643 declined, while 113 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 9.08% to 15.6200.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 0.24% or 3.15 to $1320.25 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 0.97% or 0.47 to hit $48.71 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 1.02% or 0.51 to trade at $50.70 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.03% to 66.535, while EUR/INR fell 0.05% to 74.7800.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.03% at 95.41.