Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods, IT and Healthcare sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.05%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.01%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were HDFC Bank Ltd (NS:HDBK), which rose 1.54% or 23.00 points to trade at 1,515.60 at the close. Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) added 1.12% or 15.45 points to end at 1,389.50 and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) was up 1.12% or 7.25 points to 654.70 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (NS:APSE), which lost 1.83% or 26.45 points to trade at 1,416.90 in late trade. Tata Consumer Products Ltd (NS:TACN) declined 1.65% or 18.45 points to end at 1,099.50 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:TEML) shed 1.42% or 18.95 points to 1,318.55.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:HDBK) which rose 1.56% to 1,515.45, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was up 1.12% to settle at 1,389.40 and Larsen&Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which gained 0.93% to close at 3,619.60.
The worst performers were Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which was down 1.33% to 1,319.95 in late trade, Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which lost 1.21% to settle at 2,867.40 and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was down 1.16% to 3,850.00 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1335 to 858 and 45 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2098 fell and 1604 advanced, while 97 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.54% to 21.71.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.34% or 7.90 to $2,345.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.83% or 0.64 to hit $76.23 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.76% or 0.62 to trade at $80.74 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.21% to 83.11, while EUR/INR rose 0.04% to 90.09.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.25% at 104.78.
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