Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Healthcare and Public Sector Undertakings sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 1.08% to hit a new 6-months high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 1.09%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL), which rose 9.19% or 85.20 points to trade at 1012.00 at the close. Meanwhile, State Bank Of India (NS:SBI) added 6.38% or 11.75 points to end at 195.90 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) was up 5.85% or 45.60 points to 824.95 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Cairn India Limited (NS:CAIL), which fell 2.23% or 3.15 points to trade at 138.05 at the close. Tata Power Co. Ltd (NS:TTPW) declined 1.43% or 1.05 points to end at 72.60 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC) was down 1.41% or 3.05 points to 213.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which rose 6.42% to 195.55, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was up 5.83% to settle at 825.50 and Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which gained 2.75% to close at 972.65.
The worst performers were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which was down 1.64% to 213.15 in late trade, AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which lost 1.17% to settle at 513.10 and Vedanta Ltd (BO:VDAN) which was down 1.11% to 102.80 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 848 to 584 and 64 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 914 rose and 661 declined, while 70 ended unchanged.
Shares in Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) rose to all time highs; gaining 9.19% or 85.20 to 1012.00.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 0.42% to 15.2600 a new 3-months low.
Gold for June delivery was down 0.15% or 1.80 to $1218.60 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 1.05% or 0.52 to hit $48.96 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 1.45% or 0.72 to trade at $48.87 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.17% to 67.037, while EUR/INR fell 0.03% to 74.9040.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.16% at 95.29.