Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Real Estate, Metals and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the S&P CNX Nifty rose 0.92%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 1.13%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P CNX Nifty were Yes Bank Ltd. (NSE:YESB), which rose 8.10% or 51.00 points to trade at 680.70 at the close. Tata Motors Ltd . (NSE:TAMO) added 6.68% or 20.60 points to end at 328.85 and Vedanta Ltd (NSE:VDAN) was up 6.54% or 5.30 points to 86.40 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tata Power Co. Ltd (NSE:TTPW), which lost 6.02% or 3.75 points to trade at 58.50 in late trade. Ambuja Cements Ltd. (NSE:ABUJ) declined 2.14% or 4.55 points to end at 207.60 and POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA (NSE:PGRD) shed 1.91% or 2.50 points to 128.60.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Vedanta Ltd (BO:VDAN) which rose 7.73% to 86.45, Tata Motors Ltd. (BO:TAMO) which was up 6.30% to settle at 329.20 and Coal India Limited (BO:COAL) which gained 5.23% to close at 353.90.
The worst performers were Tata Power Co. Ltd (BO:TTPW) which was down 5.54% to 58.85 in late trade, Housing Development Finance Corp. (BO:HDFC) which lost 1.82% to settle at 1145.60 and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which was down 1.20% to 4199.45 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 734 to 681 and 8 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 411 rose and 334 declined, while 4 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of S&P CNX Nifty options, was down 4.56% to 26.8475.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 0.48% or 5.50 to $1148.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October rose 3.49% or 1.33 to hit $39.58 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 3.55% or 1.51 to trade at $44.20 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 1.64% to 65.920, while EUR/INR fell 2.60% to 75.6190.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.81% at 94.14.