Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Real Estate, Metals and Power sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 0.61%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.49%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were JSW Steel Ltd (NS:JSTL), which rose 4.85% or 40.30 points to trade at 870.50 at the close. Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC) added 4.43% or 6.90 points to end at 162.75 and Divi's Laboratories Ltd. (NS:DIVI) was up 4.14% or 142.75 points to 3,588.05 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH), which lost 1.66% or 66.90 points to trade at 3,952.40 in late trade. Titan Company Ltd (NS:TITN) declined 1.47% or 55.85 points to end at 3,745.95 and Nestle India Ltd (NS:NEST) shed 1.25% or 32.90 points to 2,589.45.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which rose 4.36% to 162.70, UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:ULTC) which was up 2.38% to settle at 9,977.35 and NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which gained 1.82% to close at 342.05.
The worst performers were Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which was down 1.57% to 3,745.00 in late trade, Nestle India Ltd (BO:NEST) which lost 1.22% to settle at 2,591.20 and LTIMindtree Ltd (BO:LTIM) which was down 0.96% to 4,889.00 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1958 to 259 and 26 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 3117 rose and 642 declined, while 144 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 5.84% to 12.08 a new 3-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 1.43% or 32.05 to $2,270.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.28% or 0.23 to hit $82.94 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.36% or 0.31 to trade at $86.69 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.01% to 83.39, while EUR/INR fell 0.03% to 89.92.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.04% at 104.32.