Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Banking and Metals sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.40%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.40%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI), which rose 3.34% or 23.70 points to trade at 733.05 at the close. Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL) added 2.77% or 5.15 points to end at 191.25 and AXIS Bank Ltd (NS:AXBK) was up 2.05% or 14.75 points to 736.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included UPL Ltd (NS:UPLL), which lost 2.32% or 18.55 points to trade at 780.00 in late trade. SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:SBIL) declined 2.07% or 22.60 points to end at 1,070.00 and Nestle India Ltd (NS:NEST) shed 1.75% or 301.15 points to 16,860.05.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which rose 3.40% to 733.35, AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which was up 2.13% to settle at 736.25 and ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which gained 1.59% to close at 710.25.
The worst performers were Nestle India Ltd (BO:NEST) which was down 1.83% to 16,863.45 in late trade, Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (BO:HDFC) which lost 1.58% to settle at 2,267.75 and HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which was down 1.41% to 1,163.70 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1338 to 513 and 36 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2286 fell and 1110 advanced, while 151 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 3.50% to 22.61 a new 1-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 1.25% or 24.35 to $1,929.85 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 4.50% or 5.12 to hit $108.78 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 3.94% or 4.62 to trade at $112.75 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.17% to 76.16, while EUR/INR fell 0.16% to 83.63.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.28% at 99.10.