Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Metals and Auto sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 0.87%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.76%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:INBF), which rose 4.96% or 55.10 points to trade at 1172.10 at the close. Meanwhile, Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC) added 4.70% or 11.00 points to end at 245.50 and Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (NS:IOC) was up 5.36% or 8.35 points to 163.45 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL), which fell 0.86% or 2.40 points to trade at 275.60 at the close. Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:TEML) declined 0.89% or 6.30 points to end at 702.75 and Bharti Infratel Ltd (NS:BHRI) was down 1.04% or 3.30 points to 314.85.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which rose 4.59% to 175.35, Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which was up 3.43% to settle at 567.20 and Yes Bank Ltd (BO:YESB) which gained 2.71% to close at 339.45.
The worst performers were Coal India Ltd (BO:COAL) which was down 1.36% to 276.05 in late trade, ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which lost 1.04% to settle at 271.95 and State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was down 0.56% to 267.00 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1058 to 538 and 41 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1582 rose and 973 declined, while 139 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 3.80% to 12.6450.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.05% or 0.60 to $1305.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 1.63% or 1.15 to hit $69.56 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 1.76% or 1.39 to trade at $77.40 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.70% to 67.785, while EUR/INR fell 0.74% to 79.5060.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.03% at 93.75.