India stocks higher at close of trade; Nifty 50 up 0.94%

Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Capital Goods, Metals and Oil&Gas sectors led shares higher.

At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 0.94%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 0.92%.

The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Divi's Laboratories Ltd. (NS:DIVI), which rose 5.12% or 171.70 points to trade at 3,522.40 at the close. Meanwhile, Hero MotoCorp Ltd (NS:HROM) added 2.67% or 82.60 points to end at 3,172.00 and Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) was up 2.62% or 89.85 points to 3,517.85 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were State Bank Of India (NS:SBI), which fell 0.71% or 4.10 points to trade at 574.05 at the close. Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (NS:HLL) declined 0.52% or 13.00 points to end at 2,496.25 and Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL) was down 0.26% or 3.15 points to 1,203.20.

The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Larsen&Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which rose 2.16% to 2,971.00, Axis Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which was up 2.07% to settle at 1,009.30 and Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which gained 1.88% to close at 7,560.05.

The worst performers were State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was down 0.65% to 574.40 in late trade, Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which lost 0.42% to settle at 2,498.00 and Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which was down 0.32% to 3,262.00 at the close.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1405 to 696 and 47 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2343 rose and 1308 declined, while 170 ended unchanged.

The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 2.04% to 11.10.

Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.22% or 4.35 to $1,994.85 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 1.97% or 1.59 to hit $82.10 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 1.80% or 1.53 to trade at $86.42 a barrel.

USD/INR was up 0.06% to 83.21, while EUR/INR rose 0.31% to 89.47.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.13% at 104.72.