Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Real Estate, Auto and Power sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.38% to hit a new 6-month high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.48%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO), which rose 8.62% or 16.15 points to trade at 202.95 at the close. Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) added 4.46% or 15.20 points to end at 356.45 and Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) was up 2.80% or 561.60 points to 20583.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (NS:HPCL), which lost 2.96% or 8.40 points to trade at 273.95 in late trade. Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE) declined 2.81% or 12.15 points to end at 417.70 and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) shed 2.42% or 9.50 points to 380.50.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which rose 8.36% to 202.80, Tata Motors Ltd DVR (BO:TAMdv) which was up 6.17% to settle at 98.15 and Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which gained 5.08% to close at 357.55.
The worst performers were Bajaj Auto Ltd (BO:BAJA) which was down 2.14% to 2855.10 in late trade, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which lost 1.92% to settle at 469.85 and Vedanta Ltd (BO:VDAN) which was down 0.71% to 187.65 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 843 to 721 and 83 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1284 fell and 1166 advanced, while 151 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 0.43% to 18.0825.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.19% or 2.45 to $1291.75 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.86% or 0.53 to hit $62.12 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.43% or 0.30 to trade at $69.31 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.26% to 69.035, while EUR/INR fell 0.29% to 77.3540.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.15% at 96.942.