Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the , and sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the gained 0.42% to hit a new all time high, while the index gained 0.49%.
The best performers of the session on the were Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (NS:), which rose 6.50% or 781.40 points to trade at 12,805.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:) added 2.41% or 68.65 points to end at 2,920.00 and Divi’s Laboratories Ltd. (NS:) was up 2.25% or 100.30 points to 4,564.50 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Reliance Industries Ltd (NS:), which fell 0.81% or 25.80 points to trade at 3,176.00 at the close. Tata Consumer Products Ltd (NS:) declined 0.76% or 8.80 points to end at 1,142.00 and JSW Steel Ltd (NS:) was down 0.61% or 5.70 points to 933.50.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:) which rose 6.42% to 12,798.60, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:) which was up 2.51% to settle at 2,921.05 and Titan Company Ltd (BO:) which gained 2.02% to close at 3,217.35.
The worst performers were Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:) which was down 0.83% to 3,175.65 in late trade, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:) which lost 0.61% to settle at 1,840.70 and Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:) which was down 0.55% to 7,058.05 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1160 to 1094 and 23 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1914 rose and 1876 declined, while 84 ended unchanged.
The , which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 3.38% to 14.06.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.27% or 6.30 to $2,369.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 0.46% or 0.38 to hit $81.95 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 0.38% or 0.33 to trade at $85.42 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.04% to 83.49, while EUR/INR rose 0.08% to 90.39.
The US Dollar Index Futures was unchanged 0.00% at 104.67.
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