After the market closed on Monday, Indian equities rose as increases in the power, banking, and public sector undertakings sectors drove up stock prices.
The Nifty 50 index increased 0.73% at the NSE close, while the BSE Sensex 30 index increased 0.85%. State Bank of India (NS: SBI), which increased 3.19% or 16.80 points to conclude trading at 544.000 on the Nifty 50, was the session’s top performer. AXIS Bank Ltd (NS:AXBK) was up 2.00% or 16.00 points to 816.50 in late afternoon, and Bajaj Finserv Ltd (NS:BJFS) gained 2.09% or 35.30 points to close at 1,723.60. Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS: HALC), which lost 2.08% or 8.25 points to end at 388.90, was the worst-performing stock of the day.
JSW Steel Ltd (NS:JSTL) down 1.30% or 8.30 points to 631.95, and Larsen & Toubro Ltd (NS:LART) dropped 1.42% or 27.20 points to finish at 1,884.40.
State Bank Of India (BO: SBI), which increased 3.20% to 543.90 on the BSE Sensex 30, NTPC Ltd (BO: NTPC), which increased 1.88% to end at 168.10, and Bajaj Finserv Ltd (BO: BJFS), which increased 1.80% to conclude at 1,718.80, were the top performers. The poorest performers were Wipro Ltd (BO: WIPR), down 0.60% to 375.05 at the close, HCL Technologies Ltd (BO: HCLT), down 0.77% to conclude at 994.75 and Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO: LART), down 1.45% to 1,883.80 in late trade.
On the India National Stock Exchange, declining equities exceeded rising ones by 1049 to 797, and 69 stocks closed unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1872 declined, and 1505 increased, while 157 stocks remained steady.
Shares of Wipro Ltd. (BO: WIPR) decreased by 0.60% or 2.25 to 375.05. This is a 52-week low. The India VIX, which gauges Nifty 50 option implied volatility, increased 0.88% to 18.42. The price of gold for December delivery increased by 12.10 percent, or 0.73%, to $1,661.00 per troy ounce. In other commodity trades, the December delivery price of crude oil increased by 0.64% or 0.54 to $85.19 per barrel, while the December Brent oil contract increased by 0.63% or 0.58 to $92.21 per barrel.
While EUR/INR increased 0.30% to 80.26, USD/INR decreased 0.02% to 82.32. At 112.85, the US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.31%.
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