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At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.33%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.29%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (NS:MRTI), which rose 4.05% or 222.80 points to trade at 5725.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) added 3.41% or 18.60 points to end at 563.50 and Wipro Ltd (NS:WIPR) was up 2.45% or 5.20 points to 217.60 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bharti Infratel Ltd (NS:BHRI), which fell 4.49% or 9.70 points to trade at 206.30 at the close. Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (NS:KTKM) declined 2.29% or 29.30 points to end at 1247.50 and ITC Ltd (NS:ITC) was down 2.19% or 4.05 points to 180.95.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which rose 4.15% to 5726.00, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was up 3.38% to settle at 563.20 and AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which gained 2.10% to close at 389.45.
The worst performers were Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which was down 2.81% to 1241.00 in late trade, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which lost 2.00% to settle at 159.20 and ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which was down 1.97% to 181.30 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 901 to 706 and 61 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1369 rose and 1068 declined, while 143 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.18% to 33.3550.
Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.89% or 15.50 to $1721.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.86% or 0.33 to hit $38.05 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.49% or 0.20 to trade at $40.76 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.12% to 76.151, while EUR/INR fell 0.29% to 85.6085.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.17% at 97.093.
