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At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.90% to hit a new all time high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.81%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were JSW Steel Ltd (NS:JSTL), which rose 5.83% or 21.35 points to trade at 387.60 at the close. Meanwhile, Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) added 5.71% or 10.05 points to end at 186.00 and State Bank Of India (NS:SBI) was up 3.34% or 8.90 points to 275.75 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (NS:HLL), which fell 0.43% or 10.30 points to trade at 2391.95 at the close. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) declined 0.43% or 2.55 points to end at 587.90 and Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL) was down 0.39% or 3.25 points to 829.95.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which rose 3.33% to 1545.60, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was up 3.15% to settle at 275.15 and Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which gained 2.23% to close at 1290.00.
The worst performers were Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which was down 0.41% to 2390.10 in late trade, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which lost 0.31% to settle at 588.00 and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (BO:REDY) which was down 0.18% to 5194.00 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1180 to 482 and 71 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1949 rose and 953 declined, while 166 ended unchanged.
Shares in JSW Steel Ltd (NS:JSTL) rose to 52-week highs; rising 5.83% or 21.35 to 387.60. Shares in Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) rose to all time highs; up 3.33% or 49.75 to 1545.60.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 2.30% to 20.4275.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.00% or 0.05 to $1883.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 1.08% or 0.52 to hit $48.75 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.93% or 0.48 to trade at $51.82 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.06% to 73.510, while EUR/INR rose 0.08% to 89.7705.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.10% at 90.162.
