Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Capital Goods, Auto and Power sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.17%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.03%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (NS:MRTI), which rose 5.30% or 365.50 points to trade at 7265.40 at the close. Meanwhile, UPL Ltd (NS:UPLL) added 3.92% or 30.30 points to end at 802.50 and Shree Cements Ltd. (NS:SHCM) was up 3.59% or 1013.70 points to 29239.05 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Asian Paints Ltd. (NS:ASPN), which fell 1.88% or 57.75 points to trade at 3010.80 at the close. Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:BJFN) declined 1.62% or 99.20 points to end at 6016.80 and Nestle India Ltd (NS:NEST) was down 1.20% or 212.60 points to 17436.55.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which rose 5.25% to 7263.75, Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which was up 2.20% to settle at 1499.15 and UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:ULTC) which gained 1.11% to close at 6856.50.
The worst performers were Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was down 1.91% to 3010.85 in late trade, Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which lost 1.61% to settle at 6017.40 and Nestle India Ltd (BO:NEST) which was down 1.08% to 17451.20 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1072 to 626 and 38 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1927 rose and 1163 declined, while 113 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 2.14% to 14.7375.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.10% or 1.85 to $1784.75 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 0.62% or 0.45 to hit $72.67 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.56% or 0.42 to trade at $74.48 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.25% to 74.316, while EUR/INR rose 0.07% to 88.3840.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.19% at 92.058.