Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Real Estate, Consumer Durables and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.51%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.44%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Ltd. (NS:APLH), which rose 5.34% or 261.00 points to trade at 5,148.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (NS:APSE) added 2.67% or 20.70 points to end at 795.00 and Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) was up 2.63% or 87.75 points to 3,426.05 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bajaj Finserv Ltd (NS:BJFS), which fell 2.83% or 44.60 points to trade at 1,531.00 at the close. Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY) declined 1.25% or 66.50 points to end at 5,272.00 and SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:SBIL) was down 1.08% or 14.55 points to 1,328.95.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which rose 2.23% to 3,272.55, LTIMindtree Ltd (BO:LTIM) which was up 2.21% to settle at 5,132.30 and ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which gained 1.54% to close at 933.45.
The worst performers were Bajaj Finserv Ltd (BO:BJFS) which was down 2.37% to 1,538.30 in late trade, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (BO:REDY) which lost 1.11% to settle at 5,275.20 and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was down 0.78% to 1,449.55 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1338 to 731 and 54 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2185 rose and 1371 declined, while 127 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.74% to 10.88.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.07% or 1.35 to $1,994.85 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.01% or 0.01 to hit $82.47 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.13% or 0.11 to trade at $86.74 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.04% to 83.28, while EUR/INR rose 0.25% to 88.64.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.16% at 105.81.