Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Public Sector Undertakings and Banking sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 1.27% to hit a new 3-month high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 1.37%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (NS:PGRD), which rose 6.42% or 10.50 points to trade at 174.00 at the close. Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (NS:IOC) added 5.66% or 5.00 points to end at 93.30 and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) was up 5.43% or 23.75 points to 461.05 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:BJFN), which lost 4.00% or 137.50 points to trade at 3304.00 in late trade. Bajaj Finserv Ltd (NS:BJFS) declined 3.52% or 233.10 points to end at 6387.05 and Britannia Industries Ltd (NS:BRIT) shed 2.38% or 94.65 points to 3888.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which rose 6.14% to 173.60, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which was up 4.53% to settle at 6132.90 and ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which gained 4.41% to close at 378.85.
The worst performers were Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which was down 3.96% to 3305.00 in late trade, Bajaj Finserv Ltd (BO:BJFS) which lost 3.45% to settle at 6390.00 and Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was down 1.85% to 1719.50 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 861 to 744 and 73 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1352 rose and 1174 declined, while 144 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.15% to 24.4275.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.52% or 9.45 to $1826.85 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 2.74% or 1.12 to hit $42.04 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 2.77% or 1.20 to trade at $44.48 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.14% to 74.632, while EUR/INR fell 0.08% to 85.4650.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.14% at 95.638.