Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Banking, IT and Carbon sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.95%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 1.16%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:SBIL), which rose 5.14% or 47.45 points to trade at 971.30 at the close. Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (NS:KTKM) added 3.29% or 63.10 points to end at 1978.95 and HDFC Bank Ltd (NS:HDBK) was up 2.83% or 43.00 points to 1562.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL), which lost 4.46% or 20.80 points to trade at 445.90 in late trade. Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC) declined 4.14% or 30.50 points to end at 706.75 and GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL) shed 3.31% or 5.10 points to 149.05.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which rose 3.17% to 1975.90, HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:HDBK) which was up 3.00% to settle at 1565.00 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which gained 2.73% to close at 995.00.
The worst performers were Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which was down 2.11% to 215.65 in late trade, Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which lost 1.23% to settle at 116.85 and NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which was down 1.18% to 109.25 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1072 to 595 and 63 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1671 fell and 1216 advanced, while 185 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 8.83% to 22.4950.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 1.23% or 20.65 to $1698.65 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 1.17% or 0.76 to hit $65.81 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract rose 1.33% or 0.91 to trade at $69.15 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.54% to 72.954, while EUR/INR fell 0.06% to 86.8190.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.32% at 92.043.