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At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 0.16%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.09%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Ltd. (NS:APLH), which rose 3.43% or 139.80 points to trade at 4,210.75 at the close. Meanwhile, IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK) added 2.89% or 30.95 points to end at 1,102.00 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC) was up 1.68% or 2.25 points to 136.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL), which fell 1.24% or 4.15 points to trade at 329.55 at the close. Divi’s Laboratories Ltd. (NS:DIVI) declined 1.01% or 35.65 points to end at 3,496.65 and Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC) was down 0.98% or 1.05 points to 106.55.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which rose 2.86% to 1,101.60, NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which was up 1.29% to settle at 160.40 and Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which gained 0.92% to close at 1,893.30.
The worst performers were Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which was down 0.93% to 106.55 in late trade, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which lost 0.86% to settle at 3,255.35 and Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which was down 0.80% to 2,460.35 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1173 to 629 and 73 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2034 rose and 1242 declined, while 137 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 3.25% to 18.43.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.15% or 2.65 to $1,758.55 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October rose 0.63% or 0.59 to hit $94.33 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 0.56% or 0.56 to trade at $100.78 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.01% to 79.84, while EUR/INR fell 0.44% to 79.24.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.25% at 108.82.
