Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Real Estate, Consumer Durables and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.10%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.01%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Indiabulls (NS:INBF), which rose 5.47% or 55.60 points to trade at 1072.55 at the close. Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC) added 3.14% or 5.85 points to end at 192.40 and Housing Development Finance Corp. (NS:HDFC) was up 3.10% or 47.60 points to 1584.75 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tata Motors DV Ltd (NS:TAMdv), which lost 2.59% or 7.25 points to trade at 272.75 in late trade. Lupin Ltd (NS:LUPN) declined 2.58% or 34.55 points to end at 1303.80 and Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) shed 2.22% or 7.90 points to 347.60.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which rose 3.14% to 192.15, Housing Development Finance Corp. (BO:HDFC) which was up 2.99% to settle at 1582.95 and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which gained 2.76% to close at 6705.65.
The worst performers were Lupin Ltd (BO:LUPN) which was down 2.49% to 1304.45 in late trade, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which lost 2.00% to settle at 347.50 and Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which was down 1.71% to 1370.90 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 851 to 730 and 11 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1513 fell and 1315 advanced, while 136 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 5.41% to 11.4475.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.12% or 1.45 to $1256.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 0.80% or 0.39 to hit $49.23 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 1.11% or 0.57 to trade at $52.09 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.01% to 64.220, while EUR/INR rose 0.05% to 70.0678.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 98.92.