Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Real Estate, Metals and Banking sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 1.00%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 1.06%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were AXIS Bank Ltd (NS:AXBK), which rose 4.19% or 28.15 points to trade at 699.50 at the close. JSW Steel Ltd (NS:JSTL) added 3.40% or 21.60 points to end at 657.00 and UltraTech Cement Ltd (NS:ULTC) was up 3.33% or 202.10 points to 6270.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL), which lost 2.96% or 27.65 points to trade at 907.95 in late trade. Britannia Industries Ltd (NS:BRIT) declined 2.86% or 104.30 points to end at 3546.00 and HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:HCLT) shed 2.68% or 25.65 points to 930.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which rose 4.40% to 700.40, ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which was up 3.63% to settle at 590.75 and UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:ULTC) which gained 3.61% to close at 6277.20.
The worst performers were HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which was down 2.87% to 928.40 in late trade, HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:HDBK) which lost 0.66% to settle at 1404.90 and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which was down 0.52% to 6640.00 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1094 to 586 and 81 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1800 rose and 1077 declined, while 207 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 3.55% to 23.4950 a new 1-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.11% or 1.95 to $1779.75 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 1.61% or 1.00 to hit $61.14 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 1.59% or 1.04 to trade at $64.38 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.24% to 74.740, while EUR/INR fell 0.28% to 90.3915.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.08% at 90.763.