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 added 0.88%, while the index climbed 0.72%.
The best performers of the session on the were Adani Enterprises Ltd (NS:), which rose 4.73% or 142.70 points to trade at 3,160.70 at the close. Meanwhile, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (NS:) added 4.67% or 63.35 points to end at 1,418.55 and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:) was up 3.45% or 105.65 points to 3,165.85 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:), which fell 3.35% or 59.90 points to trade at 1,728.05 at the close. Tata Steel Ltd (NS:) declined 2.94% or 4.84 points to end at 159.52 and Titan Company Ltd (NS:) was down 2.67% or 95.90 points to 3,493.35.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:) which rose 3.48% to 3,167.70, Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:) which was up 2.12% to settle at 2,799.00 and HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:) which gained 1.94% to close at 1,651.00.
The worst performers were Tata Steel Ltd (BO:) which was down 2.74% to 159.80 in late trade, Titan Company Ltd (BO:) which lost 2.37% to settle at 3,502.25 and Bajaj Finserv Ltd (BO:) which was down 2.02% to 1,842.00 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 2091 to 405 and 90 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2881 rose and 884 declined, while 96 ended unchanged.
The , which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 2.82% to 14.65.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.17% or 4.45 to $2,661.55 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 2.09% or 1.61 to hit $75.53 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 2.00% or 1.62 to trade at $79.31 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.04% to 83.96, while EUR/INR rose 0.09% to 92.26.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.15% at 102.14.
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