Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Real Estate, Oil & Gas and Consumer Durables sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.64%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.60%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Yes Bank Ltd (NS:YESB), which rose 14.00% or 13.05 points to trade at 103.85 at the close. Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) added 5.84% or 9.40 points to end at 170.00 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) was up 2.62% or 11.10 points to 433.30 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (NS:TCS), which lost 1.90% or 40.70 points to trade at 2106.00 in late trade. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM) declined 1.32% or 8.35 points to end at 622.90 and Britannia Industries Ltd (NS:BRIT) shed 0.61% or 16.80 points to 2747.15.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Yes Bank Ltd (BO:YESB) which rose 11.48% to 103.90, Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which was up 5.53% to settle at 169.85 and Tata Motors Ltd DVR (BO:TAMdv) which gained 4.12% to close at 80.90.
The worst performers were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was down 1.86% to 2105.30 in late trade, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which lost 1.35% to settle at 623.10 and HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which was down 0.84% to 1018.65 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 845 to 738 and 65 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1261 fell and 1100 advanced, while 158 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 3.83% to 11.5600 a new 52-week low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.21% or 2.90 to $1416.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.37% or 0.22 to hit $59.80 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.36% or 0.24 to trade at $66.72 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.27% to 68.725, while EUR/INR rose 0.02% to 77.1715.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.29% at 96.822.