Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Banking, Real Estate and Capital Goods sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 4.74%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 5.00%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK), which rose 14.71% or 124.50 points to trade at 970.60 at the close. ICICI Bank Ltd (NS:ICBK) added 12.44% or 66.80 points to end at 603.80 and Bajaj Finserv Ltd (NS:BJFS) was up 11.66% or 1017.25 points to 9740.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included UPL Ltd (NS:UPLL), which lost 4.74% or 26.55 points to trade at 534.10 in late trade. Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY) declined 3.79% or 174.55 points to end at 4428.15 and Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL) shed 2.36% or 19.50 points to 806.40.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which rose 14.75% to 971.10, ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which was up 12.47% to settle at 603.95 and Bajaj Finserv Ltd (BO:BJFS) which gained 11.46% to close at 9720.00.
The worst performers were Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (BO:REDY) which was down 3.70% to 4428.60 in late trade, Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which lost 1.58% to settle at 946.50 and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which was down 0.37% to 2255.00 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1211 to 457 and 49 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1857 rose and 945 declined, while 195 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 7.97% to 23.3225.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.66% or 12.30 to $1862.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.42% or 0.22 to hit $52.42 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.75% or 0.41 to trade at $55.43 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.32% to 73.112, while EUR/INR fell 0.18% to 88.2760.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.38% at 90.882.