Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Capital Goods and Banking sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.96%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.95%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH), which rose 6.23% or 1366.45 points to trade at 23241.85 at the close. Meanwhile, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (NS:IOC) added 4.44% or 6.00 points to end at 141.40 and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) was up 3.95% or 11.50 points to 303.15 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN), which fell 4.75% or 28.00 points to trade at 561.75 at the close. Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) declined 3.65% or 6.80 points to end at 179.50 and Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:INBF) was down 2.68% or 23.20 points to 841.95.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which rose 2.44% to 360.90, NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which was up 2.36% to settle at 156.40 and AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which gained 2.05% to close at 618.60.
The worst performers were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 4.72% to 561.70 in late trade, Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which lost 3.31% to settle at 179.80 and Tata Motors Ltd DVR (BO:TAMdv) which was down 2.24% to 98.35 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 798 to 793 and 51 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1278 rose and 1250 declined, while 133 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 3.47% to 18.6950.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.28% or 3.40 to $1197.90 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 2.65% or 1.59 to hit $58.34 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 2.62% or 1.84 to trade at $68.28 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.40% to 72.645, while EUR/INR fell 0.16% to 81.5980.
The US Dollar Index Futures was unchanged 0.00% at 97.38.