Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Public Sector Undertakings and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.65%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.70%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Titan Company Ltd (NS:TITN), which rose 2.10% or 23.60 points to trade at 1148.55 at the close. Britannia Industries Ltd (NS:BRIT) added 1.51% or 40.45 points to end at 2715.05 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC) was up 1.28% or 1.65 points to 130.70 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL), which lost 7.31% or 29.85 points to trade at 380.00 in late trade. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM) declined 2.68% or 14.75 points to end at 536.95 and UPL Ltd (NS:UPLL) shed 2.40% or 13.85 points to 564.10.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which rose 1.44% to 130.65, Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which was up 1.41% to settle at 719.15 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which gained 0.80% to close at 426.65.
The worst performers were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which was down 2.55% to 537.05 in late trade, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which lost 2.42% to settle at 284.65 and Yes Bank Ltd (BO:YESB) which was down 2.19% to 67.10 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 853 to 722 and 80 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1319 rose and 1095 declined, while 161 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 5.90% to 14.9525.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.80% or 11.95 to $1511.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 8.08% or 4.43 to hit $59.23 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 8.80% or 5.30 to trade at $65.52 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.80% to 71.540, while EUR/INR rose 0.44% to 78.9905.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.11% at 97.938.