Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Real Estate, Healthcare and Consumer Durables sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.20% to hit a new 1-month high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 0.10%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK), which rose 3.74% or 67.75 points to trade at 1874.40 at the close. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM) added 2.95% or 23.55 points to end at 824.30 and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) was up 2.65% or 9.85 points to 381.35 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:INBF), which lost 2.51% or 34.05 points to trade at 1321.10 in late trade. Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC) declined 2.71% or 7.10 points to end at 255.60 and UPL Ltd (NS:UPLL) shed 1.80% or 13.75 points to 753.80.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which rose 3.63% to 1879.90, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which was up 2.74% to settle at 822.50 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which gained 1.74% to close at 514.20.
The worst performers were HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:HDBK) which was down 1.42% to 1933.05 in late trade, Tata Motors Ltd DVR (BO:TAMdv) which lost 1.15% to settle at 188.75 and Coal India Ltd (BO:COAL) which was down 0.98% to 289.20 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 832 to 770 and 47 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1370 rose and 1265 declined, while 135 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.60% to 13.1450.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.59% or 7.90 to $1330.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.42% or 0.29 to hit $68.11 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.16% or 0.12 to trade at $73.94 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.34% to 66.434, while EUR/INR fell 0.14% to 81.2484.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.44% at 90.48.