At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 1.61% to hit a new all time high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 1.68%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI), which rose 5.13% or 23.10 points to trade at 473.00 at the close. Meanwhile, IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK) added 4.93% or 36.40 points to end at 775.05 and ICICI Bank Ltd (NS:ICBK) was up 4.86% or 21.50 points to 464.30 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL), which fell 2.91% or 22.95 points to trade at 767.00 at the close. Adani Port and Special Economic Zone Ltd (NS:APSE) declined 1.12% or 4.15 points to end at 366.95 and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE) was down 0.67% or 1.30 points to 191.80.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which rose 4.92% to 471.90, IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was up 4.83% to settle at 774.40 and ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which gained 4.42% to close at 462.70.
The worst performers were Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which was down 0.63% to 6862.00 in late trade, ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which lost 0.55% to settle at 173.00 and Bajaj Finserv Ltd (BO:BJFS) which was down 0.07% to 6276.20 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 942 to 664 and 95 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1443 rose and 1159 declined, while 184 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.88% to 20.1125 a new 1-month low.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.40% or 7.80 to $1959.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 2.45% or 0.91 to hit $38.05 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 2.33% or 0.92 to trade at $40.37 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.17% to 74.101, while EUR/INR rose 0.16% to 87.9985.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.11% at 92.323.
