Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the , and sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the gained 0.06% to hit a new 1-month high, while the index gained 0.13%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the were Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:), which rose 9.98% or 71.40 points to trade at 783.05 at the close. Yes Bank Ltd (NS:) added 4.92% or 8.35 points to end at 178.00 and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (NS:) was up 4.68% or 82.00 points to 1825.60 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:), which lost 7.55% or 37.20 points to trade at 455.40 in late trade. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:) declined 3.47% or 27.45 points to end at 761.05 and UPL Ltd (NS:) shed 2.76% or 20.90 points to 732.60.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Yes Bank Ltd (BO:) which rose 4.92% to 178.00, Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:) which was up 4.12% to settle at 1825.90 and Vedanta Ltd (BO:) which gained 3.70% to close at 203.05.
The worst performers were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:) which was down 7.52% to 455.30 in late trade, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:) which lost 3.79% to settle at 760.25 and ITC Ltd (BO:) which was down 1.14% to 283.00 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 838 to 752 and 67 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1284 rose and 1224 declined, while 156 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The , which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 4.91% to 18.2225.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.82% or 10.10 to $1236.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 4.32% or 2.20 to hit $53.13 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 4.00% or 2.38 to trade at $61.84 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.80% to 70.325, while EUR/INR rose 1.24% to 79.8140.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.30% at 96.905.
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