Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the , and sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the gained 1.79%, while the index gained 1.77%.
The best performers of the session on the were Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:), which rose 8.65% or 422.80 points to trade at 5,308.10 at the close. Meanwhile, Bajaj Finserv Ltd (NS:) added 7.88% or 124.25 points to end at 1,700.65 and Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:) was up 6.54% or 453.90 points to 7,389.20 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:), which fell 0.63% or 11.95 points to trade at 1,878.00 at the close. Britannia Industries Ltd (NS:) declined 0.14% or 6.95 points to end at 4,787.80 and Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:) was up 0.44% or 6.05 points to 1,375.05.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bajaj Finserv Ltd (BO:) which rose 7.75% to 1,698.90, Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:) which was up 6.25% to settle at 7,370.00 and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:) which gained 5.43% to close at 11,830.15.
The worst performers were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:) which was down 0.78% to 1,875.00 in late trade, ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:) which gained 0.51% to settle at 1,290.95 and JSW Steel Ltd (BO:) which was up 0.55% to 910.50 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1387 to 855 and 148 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2259 rose and 1530 declined, while 111 ended unchanged.
Shares in Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:) rose to all time highs; gaining 8.65% or 422.80 to 5,308.10.
The , which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 5.91% to 13.65.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.58% or 15.24 to $2,656.24 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 1.13% or 0.81 to hit $72.53 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 1.03% or 0.77 to trade at $75.41 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.30% to 85.70, while EUR/INR rose 0.09% to 88.65.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.07% at 108.38.
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