Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Banking and Carbon sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the S&P CNX Nifty added 0.62%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.74%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P CNX Nifty were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NSE:MAHM), which rose 4.12% or 51.60 points to trade at 1305.55 at the close. Meanwhile, Bank Of Baroda (NSE:BOB) added 2.49% or 3.45 points to end at 142.10 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NSE:ONGC) was up 2.01% or 6.30 points to 319.15 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Tata Motors Ltd. (NSE:TAMO), which fell 2.78% or 12.40 points to trade at 433.05 at the close. Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NSE:ZEE) declined 1.99% or 6.90 points to end at 340.10 and POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA (NSE:PGRD) was down 1.37% or 1.95 points to 140.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which rose 4.53% to 1308.50, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which was up 2.75% to settle at 3960.00 and Housing Development Finance Corp. (BO:HDFC) which gained 2.29% to close at 1237.45.
The worst performers were Tata Motors Ltd. (BO:TAMO) which was down 2.82% to 432.90 in late trade, Tata Power Co. Ltd (BO:TTPW) which lost 1.30% to settle at 72.15 and Gail (India) Ltd. (BO:GAIL) which was down 0.94% to 395.40 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 776 to 660 and 12 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 410 rose and 331 declined, while 1 ended unchanged.
Shares in Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) rose to all time highs; rising 2.75% or 105.90 to 3960.00.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of S&P CNX Nifty options, was down 5.81% to 15.0850 a new 1-month low.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.17% or 2.10 to $1199.90 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 1.08% or 0.66 to hit $60.16 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 1.35% or 0.87 to trade at $63.39 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.01% to 63.584, while EUR/INR fell 0.42% to 71.9200.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.39% at 94.58.