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India shares higher at close of trade; Nifty 50 up 0.38%

Published 2016/05/17, 12:45
India shares higher at close of trade; Nifty 50 up 0.38%
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Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Real Estate and Green Energy sectors propelled shares higher.

At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.38%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.47%.

The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC), which rose 3.78% or 7.65 points to trade at 210.25 at the close. AXIS Bank Ltd. (NS:AXBK) added 3.47% or 16.90 points to end at 503.35 and Housing Development Finance Corp. (NS:HDFC) was up 2.65% or 31.40 points to 1217.85 in late trade.

Biggest losers included Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH), which lost 2.42% or 461.50 points to trade at 18601.65 in late trade. NTPC Limited (NS:NTPC) declined 2.21% or 3.10 points to end at 137.00 and Punjab National Bank (NS:PNBK) shed 1.60% or 1.20 points to 73.75.

The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which rose 3.72% to 210.35, AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which was up 3.32% to settle at 503.00 and Housing Development Finance Corp. (BO:HDFC) which gained 2.44% to close at 1216.25.

The worst performers were NTPC Limited (BO:NTPC) which was down 2.18% to 137.05 in late trade, Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which lost 1.38% to settle at 834.80 and HDFC Bank Ltd. (BO:HDBK) which was down 0.81% to 1153.60 at the close.

Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 709 to 702 and 81 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 806 fell and 753 advanced, while 69 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.

The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 3.87% to 16.3725.

In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was down 0.06% or 0.75 to $1273.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $47.72 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.39% or 0.19 to trade at $48.78 a barrel.

USD/INR was down 0.14% to 66.816, while EUR/INR fell 0.04% to 75.6510.

The US Dollar Index was unchanged 0.00% at 94.53.

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