Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Real Estate, Banking and Consumer Durables sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 1.23% to hit a new 3-month high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 1.26%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Grasim Industries Ltd (NS:GRAS), which rose 6.50% or 40.65 points to trade at 666.00 at the close. UltraTech Cement Ltd (NS:ULTC) added 3.33% or 134.40 points to end at 4170.00 and JSW Steel Ltd (NS:JSTL) was up 3.12% or 8.40 points to 278.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL), which lost 1.25% or 5.10 points to trade at 402.80 in late trade. Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:TEML) declined 0.91% or 6.55 points to end at 714.50 and Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL) shed 0.80% or 6.15 points to 765.50.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:ULTC) which rose 3.34% to 4170.95, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which was up 2.85% to settle at 1366.65 and ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which gained 2.57% to close at 369.50.
The worst performers were Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which was down 1.03% to 713.70 in late trade, HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which lost 0.53% to settle at 715.20 and Bajaj Auto Ltd (BO:BAJA) which was down 0.48% to 3099.45 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1131 to 475 and 89 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1756 rose and 860 declined, while 126 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 4.12% to 20.4300 a new 3-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.87% or 17.40 to $2016.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.37% or 0.16 to hit $42.73 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.22% or 0.10 to trade at $45.27 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.13% to 74.644, while EUR/INR rose 0.17% to 88.8610.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.38% at 92.495.