Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Public Sector Undertakings, Oil & Gas and Power sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 0.26%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.30%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC), which rose 5.46% or 5.00 points to trade at 96.65 at the close. NTPC Ltd (NS:NTPC) added 5.15% or 5.00 points to end at 102.15 and GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL) was up 5.04% or 6.05 points to 126.10 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AXIS Bank Ltd (NS:AXBK), which lost 2.34% or 14.65 points to trade at 612.40 in late trade. Adani Port and Special Economic Zone Ltd (NS:APSE) declined 1.27% or 6.00 points to end at 465.00 and Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) shed 1.11% or 27.65 points to 2465.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which rose 5.57% to 96.70, NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which was up 5.24% to settle at 102.35 and Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which gained 1.90% to close at 621.75.
The worst performers were AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which was down 2.30% to 612.65 in late trade, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which lost 1.04% to settle at 728.35 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which was down 0.73% to 921.00 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 978 to 676 and 51 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1692 rose and 1161 declined, while 141 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 0.41% to 18.7900.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.05% or 0.90 to $1838.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.26% or 0.12 to hit $46.66 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.36% or 0.18 to trade at $50.07 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.06% to 73.697, while EUR/INR fell 0.12% to 89.3870.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.10% at 90.912.