Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Real Estate, Technology and IT sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 1.08% to hit a new all time high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 1.15%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL), which rose 7.94% or 8.15 points to trade at 110.80 at the close. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) added 5.74% or 29.35 points to end at 541.00 and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK) was up 4.94% or 42.35 points to 900.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Nestle India Ltd (NS:NEST), which lost 2.57% or 458.95 points to trade at 17430.00 in late trade. Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (NS:KTKM) declined 1.63% or 31.00 points to end at 1876.10 and Titan Company Ltd (NS:TITN) shed 1.34% or 18.20 points to 1343.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which rose 5.51% to 539.75, IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was up 4.37% to settle at 895.10 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which gained 3.86% to close at 910.00.
The worst performers were Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which was down 1.39% to 1875.15 in late trade, Nestle India Ltd (BO:NEST) which lost 1.32% to settle at 17424.15 and Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which was down 1.21% to 1341.45 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1124 to 521 and 76 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1845 rose and 953 declined, while 161 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.84% to 20.1825.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 1.13% or 20.05 to $1800.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.13% or 0.06 to hit $45.28 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.02% or 0.01 to trade at $47.89 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.45% to 73.657, while EUR/INR fell 0.09% to 88.1715.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.12% at 91.748.