Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Auto, Real Estate and Consumer Durables sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.22%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.19%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Hero MotoCorp Ltd (NS:HROM), which rose 3.48% or 81.65 points to trade at 2,429.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL) added 3.04% or 6.50 points to end at 220.15 and Bajaj Auto Ltd (NS:BAJA) was up 2.70% or 105.05 points to 3,989.80 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL), which fell 4.12% or 14.20 points to trade at 330.10 at the close. Adani Enterprises Ltd (NS:ADEL) declined 1.97% or 34.45 points to end at 1,716.00 and Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Ltd. (NS:APLH) was down 1.88% or 80.90 points to 4,230.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which rose 2.65% to 8,512.00, Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which was up 1.74% to settle at 5,713.00 and Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which gained 1.56% to close at 760.70.
The worst performers were ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which was down 1.17% to 378.95 in late trade, Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which lost 1.17% to settle at 1,410.95 and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which was down 0.89% to 2,536.00 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1570 to 389 and 41 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2676 rose and 823 declined, while 128 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 2.71% to 12.59.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.10% or 1.90 to $1,988.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 5.41% or 4.09 to hit $79.76 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 5.18% or 4.14 to trade at $84.03 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.15% to 82.31, while EUR/INR rose 0.43% to 89.44.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.04% at 102.15.