Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Consumer Durables, Oil & Gas and Metals sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.72%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.68%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL), which rose 3.90% or 16.35 points to trade at 435.40 at the close. Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) added 3.61% or 14.50 points to end at 416.00 and Bharti Infratel Ltd (NS:BHRI) was up 2.15% or 8.55 points to 408.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (NS:PGRD), which lost 2.56% or 5.40 points to trade at 205.60 in late trade. Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (NS:MRTI) declined 1.39% or 111.05 points to end at 7867.15 and Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL) shed 1.48% or 8.70 points to 578.90.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which rose 3.78% to 416.40, Gail (India) Ltd. (BO:GAIL) which was up 3.46% to settle at 433.60 and Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which gained 2.72% to close at 1147.45.
The worst performers were Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which was down 2.16% to 206.10 in late trade, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which lost 1.06% to settle at 7888.50 and Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was down 1.04% to 384.60 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 819 to 756 and 20 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1342 rose and 1274 declined, while 108 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 0.20% to 12.4600.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.22% or 2.75 to $1274.55 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 0.12% or 0.06 to hit $50.52 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.12% or 0.07 to trade at $56.05 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.04% to 65.494, while EUR/INR rose 0.43% to 76.9549.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 93.42.