Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Real Estate, Metals and Consumer Durables sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.86%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 0.75%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL), which rose 5.29% or 28.65 points to trade at 570.05 at the close. Meanwhile, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) added 4.84% or 21.80 points to end at 471.80 and Grasim Industries Ltd (NS:GRAS) was up 4.52% or 47.90 points to 1108.65 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bosch Ltd (NS:BOSH), which fell 2.14% or 485.10 points to trade at 22138.10 at the close. Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) declined 1.45% or 6.00 points to end at 408.55 and HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:HCLT) was down 1.18% or 10.30 points to 860.10.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Cipla Ltd. (BO:CIPL) which rose 5.03% to 570.00, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was up 4.70% to settle at 472.50 and Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which gained 4.21% to close at 621.25.
The worst performers were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was down 1.00% to 2469.15 in late trade, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which lost 0.98% to settle at 410.60 and State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was down 0.93% to 278.05 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1252 to 302 and 8 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1826 rose and 698 declined, while 122 ended unchanged.
Shares in Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) rose to 5-year highs; gaining 4.21% or 25.10 to 621.25.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 5.35% to 14.3825.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.58% or 7.45 to $1286.55 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.68% or 0.33 to hit $48.49 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.83% or 0.43 to trade at $51.67 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.03% to 64.105, while EUR/INR fell 0.27% to 75.6230.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.27% at 93.24.