India stocks higher at close of trade; Nifty 50 up 0.83%

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At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.83%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 0.76%.

The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (NS:APSE), which rose 3.77% or 32.40 points to trade at 892.85 at the close. Meanwhile, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM) added 3.12% or 39.05 points to end at 1,290.65 and Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) was up 2.75% or 90.55 points to 3,382.00 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (NS:TCS), which fell 1.18% or 38.20 points to trade at 3,202.05 at the close. Infosys Ltd (NS:INFY) declined 0.98% or 14.85 points to end at 1,507.35 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC) was down 0.95% or 1.40 points to 145.80.

The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which rose 2.97% to 1,288.60, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which was up 2.58% to settle at 218.80 and Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which gained 2.31% to close at 841.00.

The worst performers were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was down 1.13% to 3,201.60 in late trade, Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which lost 0.97% to settle at 1,507.60 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 0.63% to 987.00 at the close.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1121 to 788 and 72 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2026 rose and 1472 declined, while 157 ended unchanged.

The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 3.68% to 13.55.

Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.34% or 6.05 to $1,806.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.54% or 0.40 to hit $74.86 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.53% or 0.42 to trade at $79.46 a barrel.

USD/INR was down 0.04% to 82.67, while EUR/INR rose 0.30% to 87.78.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.25% at 104.07.