Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Metals, Fast Moving Consumer Goods and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 1.90%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 1.83%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI), which rose 5.21% or 20.95 points to trade at 421.55 at the close. Meanwhile, Vedanta Ltd (NS:VDAN) added 4.36% or 13.25 points to end at 317.40 and ITC Ltd (NS:ITC) was up 4.19% or 10.85 points to 270.10 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL), which fell 2.15% or 6.55 points to trade at 297.65 at the close. Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. (NS:ARBN) declined 1.62% or 9.60 points to end at 582.85 and State Bank Of India (NS:SBI) was down 0.16% or 0.40 points to 252.85.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which rose 4.68% to 420.75, NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which was up 4.33% to settle at 171.00 and ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which gained 4.09% to close at 270.00.
The worst performers were Coal India Ltd (BO:COAL) which was down 2.26% to 297.80 in late trade, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which lost 0.12% to settle at 252.85 and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which was up 0.03% to 194.90 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 872 to 740 and 33 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1333 rose and 1324 declined, while 153 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 0.22% to 14.4925.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.51% or 6.80 to $1317.20 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 0.44% or 0.27 to hit $61.77 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 0.53% or 0.35 to trade at $65.14 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.11% to 65.015, while EUR/INR fell 0.16% to 80.0137.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 90.06.