Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Healthcare, Capital Goods and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.50%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.41%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC), which rose 2.35% or 11.00 points to trade at 480.70 at the close. Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL) added 1.69% or 9.05 points to end at 543.30 and Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (NS:IOC) was up 1.53% or 2.05 points to 135.85 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY), which lost 5.57% or 154.35 points to trade at 2615.35 in late trade. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM) declined 5.07% or 34.55 points to end at 647.55 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC) shed 4.13% or 5.95 points to 138.20.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which rose 2.31% to 480.40, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which was up 1.36% to settle at 182.90 and HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which gained 0.95% to close at 1076.05.
The worst performers were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which was down 5.31% to 646.75 in late trade, Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which lost 2.54% to settle at 139.85 and Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which was down 1.92% to 2652.50 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1171 to 440 and 55 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1663 fell and 820 advanced, while 130 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.75% to 15.8400.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.61% or 8.10 to $1310.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.80% or 0.42 to hit $52.30 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.21% or 0.13 to trade at $61.97 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.00% to 71.177, while EUR/INR fell 0.18% to 80.4455.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.22% at 96.627.