Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Real Estate and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.69%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 0.85%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM), which rose 4.01% or 30.00 points to trade at 777.70 at the close. Adani Port and Special Economic Zone Ltd (NS:APSE) added 4.00% or 12.85 points to end at 333.35 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:TEML) was up 2.94% or 20.45 points to 718.70 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:INBF), which lost 5.15% or 48.90 points to trade at 907.35 in late trade. Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) declined 1.34% or 314.50 points to end at 23002.15 and Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL) shed 1.21% or 7.85 points to 639.75.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which rose 3.97% to 778.30, Adani Port and Special Economic Zone Ltd (BO:APSE) which was up 3.54% to settle at 333.00 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which gained 3.44% to close at 165.50.
The worst performers were HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:HDBK) which was down 0.77% to 1992.40 in late trade, Bajaj Auto Ltd (BO:BAJA) which lost 0.54% to settle at 2611.15 and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which was down 0.45% to 7149.95 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1183 to 419 and 54 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1711 rose and 835 declined, while 156 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 8.01% to 17.3725.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.20% or 2.40 to $1232.70 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.86% or 0.62 to hit $71.16 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.88% or 0.71 to trade at $80.07 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.14% to 73.615, while EUR/INR fell 0.16% to 85.2805.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 94.71.