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At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.38%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.37%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH), which rose 2.17% or 69.65 points to trade at 3,281.20 at the close. Meanwhile, Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) added 2.11% or 16.95 points to end at 820.75 and State Bank Of India (NS:SBI) was up 1.79% or 10.75 points to 611.80 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Ltd. (NS:APLH), which fell 1.40% or 64.20 points to trade at 4,524.45 at the close. Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) declined 1.38% or 5.40 points to end at 385.90 and Titan Company Ltd (NS:TITN) was down 1.04% or 26.90 points to 2,553.25.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which rose 1.99% to 819.45, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was up 1.85% to settle at 612.30 and Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which gained 1.64% to close at 111.75.
The worst performers were Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which was down 1.10% to 2,552.70 in late trade, UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:ULTC) which lost 0.76% to settle at 6,994.00 and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which was down 0.65% to 2,567.30 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 968 to 917 and 67 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1786 rose and 1565 declined, while 142 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 3.78% to 14.81.
Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.19% or 3.45 to $1,812.35 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 1.53% or 1.21 to hit $77.75 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 1.25% or 1.05 to trade at $82.94 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.14% to 82.85, while EUR/INR rose 0.38% to 88.12.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.14% at 104.04.
