Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Real Estate, IT and Technology sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 0.82% to hit a new 3-months high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 0.74%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Infosys Ltd (NS:INFY), which rose 5.63% or 66.00 points to trade at 1238.70 at the close. Meanwhile, Idea Cellular Ltd (NS:IDEA) added 5.28% or 6.05 points to end at 120.70 and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) was up 4.78% or 44.25 points to 969.90 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Cairn India Limited (NS:CAIL), which fell 3.80% or 5.90 points to trade at 149.30 at the close. Hero MotoCorp Limited (NS:HROM) declined 2.97% or 93.55 points to end at 3054.50 and Bank Of Baroda (NS:BOB) was down 2.85% or 4.35 points to 148.10.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which rose 5.70% to 1238.80, Vedanta Ltd (BO:VDAN) which was up 3.62% to settle at 97.25 and Cipla Ltd. (BO:CIPL) which gained 2.42% to close at 524.15.
The worst performers were Hero MotoCorp Limited (BO:HROM) which was down 2.74% to 3065.35 in late trade, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which lost 2.56% to settle at 186.85 and Gail (India) Ltd. (BO:GAIL) which was down 2.47% to 359.45 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 802 to 629 and 62 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 481 rose and 353 declined, while 30 ended unchanged.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 5.69% to 16.9475.
Gold for June delivery was up 0.36% or 4.50 to $1239.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 3.16% or 1.32 to hit $40.39 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 2.76% or 1.19 to trade at $41.91 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.14% to 66.530, while EUR/INR rose 0.07% to 75.2260.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.07% at 94.61.