Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Capital Goods, Real Estate and Banking sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 1.07% to hit a new 1-month high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 1.09%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were UPL Ltd (NS:UPLL), which rose 4.14% or 32.65 points to trade at 821.60 at the close. Titan Company Ltd (NS:TITN) added 3.30% or 84.80 points to end at 2657.50 and Hero MotoCorp Ltd (NS:HROM) was up 3.16% or 79.00 points to 2578.10 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Wipro Ltd (NS:WIPR), which lost 2.53% or 18.00 points to trade at 693.50 in late trade. Divi's Laboratories Ltd. (NS:DIVI) declined 1.13% or 50.90 points to end at 4465.80 and Nestle India Ltd (NS:NEST) shed 0.98% or 194.85 points to 19708.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which rose 3.29% to 2657.35, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which was up 2.74% to settle at 8123.85 and Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which gained 2.54% to close at 1953.15.
The worst performers were Wipro Ltd (BO:WIPR) which was down 2.47% to 693.65 in late trade, Nestle India Ltd (BO:NEST) which lost 1.17% to settle at 19690.10 and Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was down 0.55% to 3555.00 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1333 to 506 and 34 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2545 rose and 976 declined, while 107 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 0.43% to 17.6775.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.11% or 2.05 to $1799.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.13% or 0.10 to hit $78.80 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 0.16% or 0.13 to trade at $81.62 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.29% to 74.059, while EUR/INR fell 0.56% to 83.8910.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.21% at 95.920.