Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Metals, Auto and IT sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 3.21% to hit a new 1-month high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 3.05%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO), which rose 19.96% or 15.60 points to trade at 93.75 at the close. UPL Ltd (NS:UPLL) added 14.53% or 52.40 points to end at 413.00 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC) was up 13.12% or 9.25 points to 79.75 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN), which lost 2.44% or 11.65 points to trade at 466.00 in late trade. Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (NS:HLL) declined 1.20% or 26.75 points to end at 2205.00 and Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL) shed 1.05% or 6.25 points to 590.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which rose 13.40% to 79.95, HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which was up 10.80% to settle at 544.60 and Hero MotoCorp Ltd (BO:HROM) which gained 9.22% to close at 2152.60.
The worst performers were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 2.72% to 464.85 in late trade, Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which lost 1.63% to settle at 2195.70 and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was down 0.55% to 468.00 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 905 to 598 and 91 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1264 rose and 1048 declined, while 158 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 0.44% to 33.9875.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.99% or 16.90 to $1730.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 16.33% or 2.46 to hit $17.52 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 8.67% or 2.10 to trade at $26.33 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.50% to 75.073, while EUR/INR fell 0.44% to 81.6755.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.16% at 99.485.