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At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 1.38% to hit a new 6-months high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 1.54%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO), which rose 7.88% or 10.55 points to trade at 144.45 at the close. Meanwhile, Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (NS:HDFC) added 7.56% or 134.90 points to end at 1920.00 and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE) was up 4.59% or 9.55 points to 217.75 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Britannia Industries Ltd (NS:BRIT), which fell 1.47% or 56.45 points to trade at 3774.00 at the close. Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC) declined 1.34% or 2.40 points to end at 176.65 and Wipro Ltd (NS:WIPR) was down 1.32% or 4.40 points to 329.55.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (BO:HDFC) which rose 7.49% to 1919.00, IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was up 3.44% to settle at 622.45 and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which gained 3.42% to close at 627.75.
The worst performers were Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which was down 1.14% to 377.80 in late trade, Nestle India Ltd (BO:NEST) which lost 1.00% to settle at 15879.10 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 0.36% to 521.25 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 938 to 668 and 95 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1437 rose and 1150 declined, while 159 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 0.36% to 19.6350.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.10% or 2.00 to $1918.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 1.10% or 0.43 to hit $39.65 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 1.11% or 0.46 to trade at $41.75 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.43% to 73.427, while EUR/INR rose 0.49% to 86.5525.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 93.493.
