Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Banking, Capital Goods and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.70% to hit a new 1-month high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.74%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were AXIS Bank Ltd (NS:AXBK), which rose 9.37% or 46.25 points to trade at 539.20 at the close. State Bank Of India (NS:SBI) added 4.29% or 10.00 points to end at 242.60 and ICICI Bank Ltd (NS:ICBK) was up 3.21% or 8.95 points to 287.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:HCLT), which lost 3.36% or 36.20 points to trade at 1041.65 in late trade. Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:TEML) declined 3.04% or 21.00 points to end at 670.50 and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (NS:TCS) shed 2.30% or 81.25 points to 3451.95.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which rose 8.97% to 538.90, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was up 3.99% to settle at 242.65 and ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which gained 3.34% to close at 288.05.
The worst performers were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was down 2.42% to 3454.80 in late trade, Wipro Ltd (BO:WIPR) which lost 2.17% to settle at 275.35 and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which was down 1.90% to 8777.95 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 862 to 732 and 52 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1364 rose and 1198 declined, while 131 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 0.17% to 12.0175 a new 3-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.19% or 2.50 to $1320.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.31% or 0.21 to hit $67.98 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.24% or 0.18 to trade at $74.56 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.27% to 66.735, while EUR/INR fell 0.22% to 80.6785.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.20% at 91.57.