Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Banking, Oil & Gas and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.00% to hit a new 3-month high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.06%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were NTPC Ltd (NS:NTPC), which rose 2.24% or 3.75 points to trade at 171.65 at the close. Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY) added 1.23% or 24.50 points to end at 2017.75 and State Bank Of India (NS:SBI) was up 0.82% or 2.05 points to 253.60 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Titan Company Ltd (NS:TITN), which lost 3.49% or 33.40 points to trade at 920.00 in late trade. Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE) declined 2.75% or 16.30 points to end at 577.65 and Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) shed 2.21% or 7.30 points to 323.60.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which rose 2.51% to 171.75, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (BO:REDY) which was up 1.24% to settle at 2015.50 and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which gained 1.07% to close at 1914.45.
The worst performers were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which was down 2.17% to 850.10 in late trade, Tata Motors Ltd DVR (BO:TAMdv) which lost 2.05% to settle at 190.90 and Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which was down 2.00% to 324.15 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1189 to 428 and 38 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1792 fell and 819 advanced, while 130 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.91% to 14.2450.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.11% or 1.40 to $1319.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.13% or 0.09 to hit $70.61 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to trade at $77.12 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.27% to 67.585, while EUR/INR rose 0.58% to 80.9162.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.24% at 92.22.