Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the IT, Technology and Green Energy sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.34% to hit a new all time high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.42%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:BJFN), which rose 7.19% or 527.45 points to trade at 7,860.45 at the close. Bajaj Finserv Ltd (NS:BJFS) added 5.80% or 89.40 points to end at 1,629.50 and Hero MotoCorp Ltd (NS:HROM) was up 4.52% or 131.05 points to 3,029.80 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH), which lost 6.31% or 229.05 points to trade at 3,401.80 in late trade. Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) declined 1.59% or 14.00 points to end at 865.15 and Grasim Industries Ltd (NS:GRAS) shed 1.35% or 24.15 points to 1,769.55.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which rose 7.17% to 7,861.40, Bajaj Finserv Ltd (BO:BJFS) which was up 5.76% to settle at 1,629.45 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which gained 2.39% to close at 1,148.15.
The worst performers were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was down 1.54% to 865.50 in late trade, Axis Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which lost 1.18% to settle at 970.55 and Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which was down 1.03% to 2,588.25 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1115 to 830 and 59 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1816 fell and 1566 advanced, while 112 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.39% to 11.70 a new 1-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.40% or 7.75 to $1,937.25 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 1.28% or 0.89 to hit $70.68 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 1.25% or 0.93 to trade at $75.58 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.02% to 82.01, while EUR/INR unchanged 0.00% to 89.43.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.03% at 102.63.