Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Auto, Public Sector Undertakings and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 1.14%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 1.05%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:INBF), which rose 10.01% or 67.25 points to trade at 739.95 at the close. Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) added 7.83% or 1561.35 points to end at 21505.40 and Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) was up 7.27% or 13.10 points to 194.05 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Wipro Ltd (NS:WIPR), which lost 3.42% or 12.85 points to trade at 363.60 in late trade. Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:TEML) declined 2.52% or 21.00 points to end at 810.00 and Infosys Ltd (NS:INFY) shed 1.23% or 9.15 points to 732.50.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which rose 7.72% to 194.00, Tata Motors Ltd DVR (BO:TAMdv) which was up 6.43% to settle at 95.95 and Hero MotoCorp Ltd (BO:HROM) which gained 4.60% to close at 2796.70.
The worst performers were Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which was down 1.15% to 732.60 in late trade, Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which lost 0.62% to settle at 1724.20 and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was down 0.19% to 1987.85 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1400 to 231 and 46 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2058 rose and 553 declined, while 144 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 3.79% to 15.6575.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.14% or 1.85 to $1285.65 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 0.57% or 0.32 to hit $56.27 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 0.64% or 0.42 to trade at $65.25 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.55% to 70.507, while EUR/INR fell 0.62% to 79.8790.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.07% at 96.680.