Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Banking, Auto and Real Estate sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 1.00% to hit a new all time high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 1.01%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Adani Port and Special Economic Zone Ltd (NS:APSE), which rose 4.46% or 16.75 points to trade at 391.90 at the close. AXIS Bank Ltd (NS:AXBK) added 3.93% or 23.40 points to end at 619.00 and HDFC Bank Ltd (NS:HDBK) was up 3.54% or 49.40 points to 1444.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Titan Company Ltd (NS:TITN), which lost 1.45% or 19.60 points to trade at 1328.00 in late trade. Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (NS:HDFC) declined 1.37% or 30.80 points to end at 2220.00 and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) shed 1.17% or 4.60 points to 389.85.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which rose 4.02% to 619.55, HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:HDBK) which was up 3.47% to settle at 1443.25 and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which gained 3.47% to close at 729.75.
The worst performers were Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (BO:HDFC) which was down 1.47% to 2217.65 in late trade, Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which lost 1.36% to settle at 1327.95 and Nestle India Ltd (BO:NEST) which was down 0.71% to 17665.00 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 965 to 663 and 82 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1581 rose and 1137 declined, while 176 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.25% to 21.0575.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 1.24% or 22.75 to $1815.05 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 0.93% or 0.40 to hit $43.46 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.74% or 0.34 to trade at $46.38 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.33% to 74.002, while EUR/INR rose 0.05% to 87.9525.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.31% at 92.207.