Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the IT, Technology and Metals sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.06%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.11%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Infosys Ltd (NS:INFY), which rose 2.77% or 26.55 points to trade at 985.35 at the close. Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:INBF) added 3.29% or 37.65 points to end at 1175.45 and HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:HCLT) was up 2.16% or 17.95 points to 847.95 in late trade.
Biggest losers included UPL Ltd (NS:UPLL), which lost 2.58% or 18.85 points to trade at 711.05 in late trade. Bharti Infratel Ltd (NS:BHRI) declined 2.45% or 9.45 points to end at 376.50 and Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL) shed 2.26% or 6.15 points to 265.90.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which rose 2.80% to 985.30, Gail (India) Ltd. (BO:GAIL) which was up 1.68% to settle at 463.90 and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which gained 1.37% to close at 1269.50.
The worst performers were Coal India Ltd (BO:COAL) which was down 2.09% to 266.55 in late trade, Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which lost 1.02% to settle at 1124.50 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 0.95% to 520.95 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 968 to 614 and 42 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1537 fell and 1133 advanced, while 144 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 0.41% to 14.8550 a new 3-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.50% or 6.40 to $1275.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.89% or 0.52 to hit $57.84 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.61% or 0.39 to trade at $63.34 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.19% to 64.385, while EUR/INR fell 0.60% to 76.2574.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.47% at 93.25.