Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Real Estate, Metals and Consumer Durables sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.20%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.02%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL), which rose 5.75% or 22.80 points to trade at 419.05 at the close. Meanwhile, Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) added 3.41% or 1028.10 points to end at 31213.30 and Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. (NS:ARBN) was up 2.35% or 15.85 points to 691.65 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (NS:HLL), which fell 2.40% or 28.90 points to trade at 1173.90 at the close. Wipro Ltd (NS:WIPR) declined 1.98% or 5.65 points to end at 280.25 and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY) was down 1.89% or 44.90 points to 2330.50.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Gail (India) Ltd. (BO:GAIL) which rose 5.79% to 419.10, Bajaj Auto Ltd (BO:BAJA) which was up 2.34% to settle at 3105.00 and Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which gained 1.63% to close at 388.65.
The worst performers were Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which was down 2.37% to 1175.15 in late trade, Wipro Ltd (BO:WIPR) which lost 1.71% to settle at 280.95 and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was down 1.67% to 2437.00 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1026 to 540 and 14 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1546 rose and 883 declined, while 176 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 5.22% to 12.4850.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.23% or 2.94 to $1291.64 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 0.14% or 0.07 to hit $51.63 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.02% or 0.01 to trade at $57.17 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.08% to 65.315, while EUR/INR fell 0.05% to 77.1274.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 92.94.