Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Metals, Public Sector Undertakings and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 1.78% to hit a new 6-months high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 1.78%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK), which rose 6.19% or 41.95 points to trade at 720.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC) added 6.01% or 10.60 points to end at 187.10 and State Bank Of India (NS:SBI) was up 5.56% or 11.50 points to 218.50 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Hero MotoCorp Ltd (NS:HROM), which fell 0.61% or 18.00 points to trade at 2950.00 at the close. HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:HDFL) declined 0.21% or 1.25 points to end at 593.00 and Bharti Infratel Ltd (NS:BHRI) was up 0.14% or 0.25 points to 178.30.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which rose 5.63% to 218.70, Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which was up 5.34% to settle at 425.45 and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which gained 5.32% to close at 714.20.
The worst performers were ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which was up 0.30% to 438.55 in late trade, Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (BO:HDFC) which gained 0.59% to settle at 2100.20 and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which was up 0.71% to 178.35 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1163 to 432 and 97 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1656 rose and 897 declined, while 172 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 9.63% to 20.9650.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 1.19% or 22.60 to $1918.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.43% or 0.17 to hit $38.98 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.27% or 0.11 to trade at $41.12 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.35% to 74.102, while EUR/INR rose 0.32% to 87.4595.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.53% at 92.920.