Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Real Estate, Public Sector Undertakings and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.54% to hit a new all time high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.50%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO), which rose 7.52% or 16.60 points to trade at 237.25 at the close. GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL) added 4.68% or 6.35 points to end at 142.05 and Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) was up 3.95% or 21.60 points to 568.75 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Asian Paints Ltd. (NS:ASPN), which lost 3.24% or 92.30 points to trade at 2757.00 in late trade. Titan Company Ltd (NS:TITN) declined 2.17% or 33.90 points to end at 1530.00 and Nestle India Ltd (NS:NEST) shed 2.13% or 391.45 points to 18000.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which rose 3.95% to 568.70, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was up 3.79% to settle at 293.05 and Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which gained 3.14% to close at 1956.65.
The worst performers were Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was down 3.93% to 2737.30 in late trade, Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which lost 2.09% to settle at 1530.75 and Nestle India Ltd (BO:NEST) which was down 2.04% to 18018.30 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 855 to 797 and 66 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1611 rose and 1362 declined, while 151 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 2.08% to 22.8475.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.56% or 10.30 to $1861.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 1.47% or 0.77 to hit $53.02 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 1.55% or 0.86 to trade at $56.52 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.29% to 73.243, while EUR/INR fell 0.25% to 89.0165.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.02% at 90.422.