Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Capital Goods, Oil & Gas and Public Sector Undertakings sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.79%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.69%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN), which rose 7.13% or 33.25 points to trade at 499.70 at the close. Meanwhile, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (NS:HPCL) added 6.06% or 17.90 points to end at 313.10 and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) was up 5.64% or 21.45 points to 402.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:TEML), which fell 3.91% or 27.50 points to trade at 675.25 at the close. Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (NS:PGRD) declined 2.43% or 5.15 points to end at 206.95 and HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:HCLT) was down 2.07% or 19.00 points to 894.50.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which rose 7.11% to 499.70, Coal India Ltd (BO:COAL) which was up 3.22% to settle at 284.95 and Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which gained 2.52% to close at 1377.60.
The worst performers were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was down 2.39% to 3503.80 in late trade, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which lost 2.31% to settle at 207.05 and Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which was down 1.16% to 1214.50 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1179 to 423 and 38 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1787 rose and 820 declined, while 152 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 3.24% to 13.0550.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.48% or 6.30 to $1297.40 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 1.71% or 1.16 to hit $66.72 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 1.43% or 1.09 to trade at $75.38 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.53% to 67.365, while EUR/INR fell 0.53% to 78.4726.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 94.20.