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At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.44%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 0.37%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were ITC Ltd (NS:ITC), which rose 7.08% or 12.45 points to trade at 188.20 at the close. Meanwhile, Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC) added 5.79% or 7.00 points to end at 127.80 and Asian Paints Ltd. (NS:ASPN) was up 5.16% or 77.45 points to 1577.50 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bajaj Finserv Ltd (NS:BJFS), which fell 3.60% or 169.45 points to trade at 4532.60 at the close. Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:BJFN) declined 2.90% or 59.30 points to end at 1983.50 and NTPC Ltd (NS:NTPC) was down 2.85% or 2.65 points to 90.25.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which rose 7.48% to 188.90, Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was up 5.05% to settle at 1576.25 and Hero MotoCorp Ltd (BO:HROM) which gained 3.93% to close at 2103.05.
The worst performers were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was down 2.91% to 346.95 in late trade, NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which lost 2.80% to settle at 90.30 and Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which was down 2.65% to 1988.85 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 918 to 569 and 100 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1269 rose and 864 declined, while 169 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 7.89% to 32.9850 a new 1-month low.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 1.00% or 17.45 to $1734.65 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 2.18% or 0.73 to hit $34.22 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 1.96% or 0.70 to trade at $36.45 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.03% to 75.529, while EUR/INR rose 0.00% to 82.9350.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.10% at 99.237.
