Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Banking, Real Estate and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.23%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.36%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK), which rose 6.45% or 37.75 points to trade at 623.45 at the close. ICICI Bank Ltd (NS:ICBK) added 6.02% or 23.65 points to end at 416.25 and AXIS Bank Ltd (NS:AXBK) was up 5.97% or 29.40 points to 521.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Reliance Industries Ltd (NS:RELI), which lost 8.69% or 178.50 points to trade at 1876.00 in late trade. Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE) declined 2.77% or 5.20 points to end at 182.70 and Bharti Infratel Ltd (NS:BHRI) shed 2.67% or 4.95 points to 180.60.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which rose 7.10% to 627.15, ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which was up 6.06% to settle at 416.35 and AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which gained 5.90% to close at 521.45.
The worst performers were Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which was down 8.62% to 1877.30 in late trade, HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which lost 2.55% to settle at 821.70 and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was down 2.14% to 2607.90 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1026 to 555 and 109 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1519 fell and 1044 advanced, while 146 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.85% to 25.2100 a new 3-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.43% or 8.05 to $1887.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 2.60% or 0.93 to hit $34.86 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 2.13% or 0.81 to trade at $37.13 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.14% to 74.446, while EUR/INR fell 0.28% to 86.6405.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.09% at 94.123.