Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the , and sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the gained 0.86%, while the index climbed 0.77%.
The best performers of the session on the were Tata Consumer Products Ltd (NS:), which rose 3.29% or 37.40 points to trade at 1,175.50 at the close. Meanwhile, Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:) added 3.11% or 18.20 points to end at 604.00 and Larsen & Toubro Ltd (NS:) was up 2.89% or 101.65 points to 3,620.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were NTPC Ltd (NS:), which fell 1.81% or 6.35 points to trade at 344.20 at the close. HDFC Bank Ltd (NS:) declined 1.08% or 16.50 points to end at 1,514.80 and JSW Steel Ltd (NS:) was down 0.98% or 8.45 points to 856.35.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:) which rose 2.91% to 3,621.75, Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:) which was up 2.42% to settle at 7,295.00 and Axis Bank Ltd. (BO:) which gained 2.38% to close at 1,054.00.
The worst performers were NTPC Ltd (BO:) which was down 1.82% to 344.50 in late trade, HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:) which lost 1.04% to settle at 1,515.35 and Tata Steel Ltd (BO:) which was unchanged 0.00% to 162.10 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1615 to 595 and 57 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2499 rose and 1260 declined, while 150 ended unchanged.
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The , which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 5.63% to 12.70.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 1.69% or 40.80 to $2,373.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.52% or 0.43 to hit $81.79 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.53% or 0.46 to trade at $86.83 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.01% to 83.36, while EUR/INR fell 0.08% to 88.81.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 106.00.
