Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the , and sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the added 1.03%, while the index added 1.04%.
The best performers of the session on the were Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:), which rose 5.68% or 260.10 points to trade at 4,837.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:) added 3.02% or 81.05 points to end at 2,764.00 and Shriram Finance Ltd. (NS:) was up 2.88% or 82.80 points to 2,955.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:), which fell 1.48% or 5.00 points to trade at 333.30 at the close. HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:) declined 1.09% or 7.75 points to end at 702.60 and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (NS:) was down 0.16% or 2.75 points to 1,770.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:) which rose 3.08% to 2,765.00, Tata Motors Ltd (BO:) which was up 2.85% to settle at 1,071.05 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:) which gained 2.68% to close at 1,505.70.
The worst performers were Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:) which was down 0.13% to 1,770.50 in late trade, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:) which lost 0.05% to settle at 12,208.00 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:) which was down 0.01% to 1,736.00 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1480 to 936 and 48 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2210 rose and 1528 declined, while 99 ended unchanged.
The , which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 7.45% to 15.36.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.03% or 0.85 to $2,464.15 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 0.22% or 0.17 to hit $76.36 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 0.15% or 0.12 to trade at $79.28 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.07% to 83.95, while EUR/INR fell 0.05% to 91.66.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.00% at 103.03.
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