Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Public Sector Undertakings and IT sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.17%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 0.22%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Vedanta Ltd (NS:VDAN), which rose 2.50% or 4.10 points to trade at 168.10 at the close. Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL) added 2.00% or 5.10 points to end at 260.35 and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) was up 2.08% or 7.85 points to 385.55 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:INBF), which lost 7.35% or 48.10 points to trade at 609.80 in late trade. Yes Bank Ltd (NS:YESB) declined 5.94% or 6.90 points to end at 109.30 and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (NS:MRTI) shed 1.47% or 96.65 points to 6439.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Vedanta Ltd (BO:VDAN) which rose 2.47% to 168.00, Coal India Ltd (BO:COAL) which was up 2.02% to settle at 260.35 and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which gained 1.88% to close at 197.70.
The worst performers were Yes Bank Ltd (BO:YESB) which was down 5.94% to 109.30 in late trade, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which lost 2.20% to settle at 6437.05 and Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was down 1.53% to 1380.40 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1036 to 562 and 50 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1521 fell and 921 advanced, while 120 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 0.34% to 14.6000.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.49% or 6.55 to $1349.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 0.58% or 0.30 to hit $51.87 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.77% or 0.47 to trade at $60.47 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.26% to 69.656, while EUR/INR fell 0.47% to 77.9735.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.14% at 97.188.