Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Metals, Real Estate and Banking sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.63% to hit a new 6-month high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 0.66%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC), which rose 4.80% or 6.20 points to trade at 135.25 at the close. ICICI Bank Ltd . (NS:ICBK) added 4.74% or 11.85 points to end at 261.70 and TATA STEEL LIMITED (NS:TISC) was up 4.68% or 15.30 points to 342.30 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tata Power Co. Ltd (NS:TTPW), which lost 1.69% or 1.25 points to trade at 72.70 in late trade. Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL) declined 1.21% or 6.30 points to end at 515.70 and Coal India Limited (NS:COAL) shed 1.20% or 3.85 points to 317.05.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Vedanta Ltd (BO:VDAN) which rose 7.34% to 159.50, Hindalco Industries Ltd. (BO:HALC) which was up 4.84% to settle at 135.30 and ICICI Bank Ltd. (BO:ICBK) which gained 4.68% to close at 261.55.
The worst performers were Tata Power Co. Ltd (BO:TTPW) which was down 1.49% to 72.75 in late trade, Coal India Limited (BO:COAL) which lost 1.14% to settle at 316.85 and Cipla Ltd. (BO:CIPL) which was down 0.99% to 516.20 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 842 to 632 and 53 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 942 fell and 683 advanced, while 51 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 0.44% to 14.7825 a new 6-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was down 0.31% or 4.15 to $1352.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 1.92% or 0.86 to hit $45.62 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 2.34% or 1.08 to trade at $47.33 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.00% to 67.156, while EUR/INR rose 0.43% to 74.5520.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.35% at 96.24.