Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the IT, Technology and Metals sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.76%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.71%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (NS:TCS), which rose 7.55% or 190.50 points to trade at 2713.95 at the close. Wipro Ltd (NS:WIPR) added 7.01% or 21.95 points to end at 335.00 and Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC) was up 4.93% or 18.00 points to 382.95 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bajaj Finserv Ltd (NS:BJFS), which lost 2.79% or 168.60 points to trade at 5885.00 in late trade. Shree Cements Ltd. (NS:SHCM) declined 2.75% or 566.00 points to end at 20045.00 and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE) shed 2.52% or 5.40 points to 208.60.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which rose 7.54% to 2713.00, Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which was up 4.88% to settle at 382.75 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which gained 3.39% to close at 524.00.
The worst performers were Bajaj Finserv Ltd (BO:BJFS) which was down 2.70% to 5889.50 in late trade, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which lost 1.89% to settle at 424.20 and Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which was down 1.87% to 3379.75 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 892 to 712 and 104 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1431 rose and 1193 declined, while 173 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 7.38% to 19.7050.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.19% or 3.65 to $1903.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 4.21% or 1.56 to hit $38.61 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 3.67% or 1.44 to trade at $40.71 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.03% to 73.266, while EUR/INR rose 0.26% to 86.0845.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.21% at 93.713.