Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Green Energy and Power sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.11%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.03%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Divi's Laboratories Ltd. (NS:DIVI), which rose 3.17% or 130.60 points to trade at 4,253.00 at the close. IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK) added 1.39% or 20.10 points to end at 1,461.90 and Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (NS:APSE) was up 1.18% or 16.75 points to 1,432.85 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Adani Enterprises Ltd (NS:ADEL), which lost 2.66% or 89.95 points to trade at 3,295.00 in late trade. Wipro Ltd (NS:WIPR) declined 2.16% or 10.00 points to end at 453.65 and SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:SBIL) shed 2.11% or 30.25 points to 1,406.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which rose 1.44% to 1,462.50, Axis Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which was up 1.00% to settle at 1,186.00 and Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which gained 0.87% to close at 6,897.80.
The worst performers were Wipro Ltd (BO:WIPR) which was down 2.13% to 453.65 in late trade, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which lost 1.36% to settle at 1,466.30 and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which was down 1.23% to 2,548.30 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1398 to 822 and 57 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2192 fell and 1625 advanced, while 134 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 6.83% to 23.19 a new 52-week high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.49% or 11.45 to $2,345.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.53% or 0.41 to hit $78.13 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.57% or 0.47 to trade at $82.31 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.08% to 83.13, while EUR/INR rose 0.15% to 90.24.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.05% at 104.59.