Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Public Sector Undertakings and Real Estate sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 0.35% to hit a new all time high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 0.18%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC), which rose 5.06% or 15.55 points to trade at 322.65 at the close. SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:SBIL) added 2.95% or 46.15 points to end at 1,609.00 and Shriram Finance Ltd. (NS:SHMF) was up 2.88% or 80.60 points to 2,875.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included LTIMindtree Ltd (NS:LTIM), which lost 1.63% or 90.65 points to trade at 5,482.00 in late trade. Asian Paints Ltd. (NS:ASPN) declined 1.46% or 43.65 points to end at 2,955.50 and Grasim Industries Ltd (NS:GRAS) shed 1.33% or 37.80 points to 2,805.95.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which rose 2.72% to 883.00, NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which was up 2.19% to settle at 385.50 and UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:ULTC) which gained 1.80% to close at 11,810.00.
The worst performers were Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was down 1.45% to 2,956.15 in late trade, Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which lost 1.01% to settle at 167.00 and Axis Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which was down 0.76% to 1,307.75 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1135 to 1081 and 25 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1957 fell and 1934 advanced, while 117 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 3.37% to 14.19.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.12% or 2.85 to $2,417.85 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.06% or 0.05 to hit $80.97 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 0.02% or 0.02 to trade at $85.01 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.12% to 83.62, while EUR/INR rose 0.31% to 91.25.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 103.80.