India stocks higher at close of trade; Nifty 50 up 1.58%

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 rose 1.58%, while the index added 1.55%.

The best performers of the session on the were Bharti Infratel Ltd (NS:), which rose 5.44% or 12.85 points to trade at 250.60 at the close. Meanwhile, JSW Steel Ltd (NS:) added 5.90% or 15.50 points to end at 278.10 and Tata Motors Ltd (NS:) was up 5.40% or 9.85 points to 192.00 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (NS:), which fell 1.56% or 35.25 points to trade at 2214.35 at the close. Coal India Ltd (NS:) declined 1.12% or 2.25 points to end at 198.00 and HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:) was down 0.82% or 4.80 points to 580.30.

The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Motors Ltd DVR (BO:) which rose 6.14% to 79.50, Tata Motors Ltd (BO:) which was up 5.18% to settle at 192.05 and ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:) which gained 3.80% to close at 545.85.

The worst performers were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:) which was down 1.73% to 2216.00 in late trade, HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:) which lost 0.95% to settle at 580.10 and NTPC Ltd (BO:) which was down 0.25% to 119.65 at the close.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1210 to 350 and 69 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1750 rose and 717 declined, while 183 ended unchanged.

The , which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 10.50% to 13.9975.

Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.75% or 11.75 to $1548.45 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.18% or 0.11 to hit $59.72 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.05% or 0.03 to trade at $65.47 a barrel.

USD/INR was down 0.22% to 71.349, while EUR/INR fell 0.16% to 79.2725.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.12% at 97.115.

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