Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Public Sector Undertakings, Auto and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.47% to hit a new 6-month high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.39%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Britannia Industries Ltd (NS:BRIT), which rose 8.43% or 320.80 points to trade at 4,125.00 at the close. State Bank Of India (NS:SBI) added 3.39% or 20.15 points to end at 614.10 and Adani Enterprises Ltd (NS:ADEL) was up 3.17% or 121.55 points to 3,954.80 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Divi's Laboratories Ltd. (NS:DIVI), which lost 8.71% or 326.30 points to trade at 3,420.00 in late trade. Asian Paints Ltd. (NS:ASPN) declined 2.34% or 74.35 points to end at 3,107.00 and Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL) shed 1.45% or 16.65 points to 1,129.45.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which rose 3.44% to 614.20, Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which was up 1.81% to settle at 106.65 and ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which gained 1.26% to close at 917.10.
The worst performers were Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was down 2.37% to 3,105.55 in late trade, Bajaj Finserv Ltd (BO:BJFS) which lost 1.35% to settle at 1,777.45 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 1.13% to 1,027.80 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1102 to 794 and 63 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1943 rose and 1461 declined, while 182 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 0.45% to 15.59 a new 6-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.30% or 5.00 to $1,681.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.18% or 0.17 to hit $92.44 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.10% or 0.10 to trade at $98.47 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.05% to 81.93, while EUR/INR rose 0.26% to 81.84.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.38% at 110.36.