Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Capital Goods, Power and Metals sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 0.68% to hit a new all time high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.63%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC), which rose 5.80% or 28.10 points to trade at 512.55 at the close. Meanwhile, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (NS:HPCL) added 4.45% or 13.45 points to end at 316.55 and Yes Bank Ltd (NS:YESB) was up 3.93% or 5.55 points to 146.80 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE), which fell 4.47% or 16.85 points to trade at 361.00 at the close. Lupin Ltd (NS:LUPN) declined 2.38% or 18.20 points to end at 743.30 and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK) was down 2.00% or 32.90 points to 1612.80.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which rose 5.78% to 511.45, Yes Bank Ltd (BO:YESB) which was up 3.79% to settle at 146.65 and NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which gained 3.21% to close at 133.35.
The worst performers were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was down 2.37% to 1610.75 in late trade, Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which lost 1.95% to settle at 1310.70 and Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was down 1.43% to 1365.70 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1221 to 394 and 49 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1748 rose and 764 declined, while 147 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.69% to 16.1900 a new 1-month low.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.13% or 1.65 to $1285.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.27% or 0.16 to hit $58.47 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.30% or 0.20 to trade at $67.67 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.22% to 69.519, while EUR/INR rose 0.22% to 77.8240.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.14% at 97.613.