Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Auto, Banking and Capital Goods sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 0.29%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.14%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Yes Bank Ltd (NS:YESB), which rose 9.07% or 7.95 points to trade at 96.05 at the close. Meanwhile, Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:BJFN) added 7.40% or 225.50 points to end at 3264.60 and Bajaj Finserv Ltd (NS:BJFS) was up 7.33% or 497.40 points to 7233.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Vedanta Ltd (NS:VDAN), which fell 4.29% or 7.35 points to trade at 164.10 at the close. Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (NS:IOC) declined 3.27% or 4.80 points to end at 141.80 and Reliance Industries Ltd (NS:RELI) was down 1.18% or 14.50 points to 1213.80.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Yes Bank Ltd (BO:YESB) which rose 9.64% to 96.10, Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which was up 7.20% to settle at 3265.85 and Hero MotoCorp Ltd (BO:HROM) which gained 3.21% to close at 2462.60.
The worst performers were Vedanta Ltd (BO:VDAN) which was down 4.26% to 164.05 in late trade, Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which lost 1.48% to settle at 1214.10 and Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was down 1.46% to 334.00 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 875 to 699 and 59 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1262 rose and 1140 declined, while 143 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 3.98% to 12.1325.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.24% or 3.35 to $1418.05 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 0.80% or 0.45 to hit $56.47 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.71% or 0.45 to trade at $63.84 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.09% to 68.968, while EUR/INR fell 0.23% to 76.7640.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.12% at 97.665.