Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Consumer Durables, Metals and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 2.32%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 2.30%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Titan Company Ltd (NS:TITN), which rose 7.30% or 86.60 points to trade at 1273.00 at the close. Bharti Infratel Ltd (NS:BHRI) added 5.67% or 13.00 points to end at 242.30 and Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (NS:IOC) was up 5.60% or 6.05 points to 114.10 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE), which lost 5.30% or 13.60 points to trade at 243.00 in late trade. Bajaj Auto Ltd (NS:BAJA) declined 3.76% or 123.60 points to end at 3160.90 and Yes Bank Ltd (NS:YESB) shed 2.78% or 1.00 points to 35.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which rose 7.55% to 1275.50, ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which was up 3.85% to settle at 215.70 and Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (BO:HDFC) which gained 3.76% to close at 2345.70.
The worst performers were Bajaj Auto Ltd (BO:BAJA) which was down 3.86% to 3162.50 in late trade, Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which lost 1.08% to settle at 2155.00 and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was up 0.22% to 2107.70 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1056 to 466 and 92 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1531 rose and 852 declined, while 163 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 8.89% to 14.3800.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.52% or 8.25 to $1574.15 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 1.46% or 0.73 to hit $50.84 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.79% or 0.43 to trade at $54.88 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.09% to 71.254, while EUR/INR fell 0.14% to 78.7575.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.10% at 97.725.