Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Public Sector Undertakings, Banking and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 1.11% to hit a new 52-week high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 1.05%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (NS:BHEL), which rose 4.54% or 6.40 points to trade at 147.30 at the close. Meanwhile, Bank Of Baroda (NS:BOB) added 3.42% or 5.15 points to end at 155.85 and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (NS:MRTI) was up 3.08% or 135.85 points to 4550.55 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. (NS:REDY), which fell 3.26% or 117.50 points to trade at 3482.35 at the close. GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL) declined 0.79% or 3.10 points to end at 391.65 and Bajaj Auto Limited (NS:BAJA) was down 0.73% or 19.75 points to 2700.85.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BO:BHEL) which rose 4.29% to 147.10, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which was up 3.11% to settle at 4550.60 and State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which gained 2.86% to close at 229.85.
The worst performers were Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. (BO:REDY) which was down 3.62% to 3474.85 in late trade, Gail (India) Ltd. (BO:GAIL) which lost 1.04% to settle at 390.95 and Bajaj Auto Limited (BO:BAJA) which was down 0.76% to 2700.00 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 998 to 473 and 64 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1074 rose and 543 declined, while 63 ended unchanged.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.42% to 15.7175.
Gold for December delivery was down 0.45% or 6.05 to $1325.45 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.63% or 0.28 to hit $43.91 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.63% or 0.29 to trade at $45.80 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.25% to 67.323, while EUR/INR rose 0.35% to 73.9720.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.05% at 97.36.