Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Real Estate, Fast Moving Consumer Goods and Consumer Durables sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.36%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.38%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI), which rose 3.03% or 10.50 points to trade at 357.00 at the close. Tata Motors Ltd . (NS:TAMO) added 2.21% or 10.05 points to end at 464.40 and Housing Development Finance Corp. (NS:HDFC) was up 2.19% or 26.35 points to 1227.30 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tata Power Co. Ltd (NS:TTPW), which lost 3.41% or 2.60 points to trade at 73.70 in late trade. Bharti Infratel Limited (NS:BHRI) declined 2.74% or 9.550 points to end at 338.650 and TATA STEEL LIMITED (NS:TISC) shed 1.53% or 5.05 points to 325.45.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which rose 2.73% to 355.70, Housing Development Finance Corp. (BO:HDFC) which was up 2.21% to settle at 1227.80 and Tata Motors Ltd. (BO:TAMO) which gained 2.03% to close at 463.20.
The worst performers were Tata Power Co. Ltd (BO:TTPW) which was down 3.41% to 73.65 in late trade, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which lost 1.45% to settle at 742.80 and TATA STEEL LIMITED (BO:TISC) which was down 1.38% to 325.50 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 732 to 692 and 78 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 797 fell and 772 advanced, while 74 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.96% to 17.3500.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was down 0.57% or 7.45 to $1290.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 1.67% or 0.77 to hit $46.98 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 2.20% or 1.04 to trade at $48.23 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.34% to 67.088, while EUR/INR fell 0.10% to 75.5140.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.23% at 94.55.