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At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.20%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.28%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE), which rose 5.05% or 8.80 points to trade at 183.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Bharti Infratel Ltd (NS:BHRI) added 4.80% or 8.70 points to end at 189.80 and HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:HCLT) was up 4.29% or 36.25 points to 881.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Britannia Industries Ltd (NS:BRIT), which fell 5.82% or 219.55 points to trade at 3552.90 at the close. Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC) declined 2.60% or 1.80 points to end at 67.50 and GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL) was down 2.29% or 2.00 points to 85.45.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which rose 4.19% to 880.05, Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which was up 3.13% to settle at 850.80 and Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which gained 2.92% to close at 2131.00.
The worst performers were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which was down 2.67% to 67.40 in late trade, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which lost 1.44% to settle at 157.45 and NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which was down 1.22% to 80.75 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 833 to 752 and 106 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1327 rose and 1270 declined, while 160 ended unchanged.
Shares in Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) rose to all time highs; up 2.92% or 60.40 to 2131.00.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 4.00% to 22.6900.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.14% or 2.65 to $1909.05 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.58% or 0.24 to hit $41.30 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.33% or 0.14 to trade at $42.76 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.15% to 73.459, while EUR/INR rose 0.58% to 86.8055.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.28% at 93.170.
