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India stocks higher at close of trade; Nifty 50 up 0.64%

Published 07/16/2019, 06:45 AM
Updated 07/16/2019, 06:45 AM
India stocks higher at close of trade; Nifty 50 up 0.64%

India stocks higher at close of trade; Nifty 50 up 0.64%

Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Real Estate, Oil & Gas and Consumer Durables sectors led shares higher.

At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.64%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.60%.

The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Yes Bank Ltd (NS:YESB), which rose 14.00% or 13.05 points to trade at 103.85 at the close. Meanwhile, Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) added 5.84% or 9.40 points to end at 170.00 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) was up 2.62% or 11.10 points to 433.30 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (NS:TCS), which fell 1.90% or 40.70 points to trade at 2106.00 at the close. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM) declined 1.32% or 8.35 points to end at 622.90 and Britannia Industries Ltd (NS:BRIT) was down 0.61% or 16.80 points to 2747.15.

The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Yes Bank Ltd (BO:YESB) which rose 11.48% to 103.90, Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which was up 5.53% to settle at 169.85 and Tata Motors Ltd DVR (BO:TAMdv) which gained 4.12% to close at 80.90.

The worst performers were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was down 1.86% to 2105.30 in late trade, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which lost 1.35% to settle at 623.10 and HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which was down 0.84% to 1018.65 at the close.

Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 845 to 738 and 65 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1261 fell and 1100 advanced, while 158 ended unchanged.

The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 3.83% to 11.5600 a new 52-week low.

Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.21% or 2.90 to $1416.40 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.37% or 0.22 to hit $59.80 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.36% or 0.24 to trade at $66.72 a barrel.

USD/INR was up 0.27% to 68.725, while EUR/INR rose 0.02% to 77.1715.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.29% at 96.822.

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