Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Capital Goods, Banking and Carbon sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.87%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.88%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI), which rose 4.98% or 21.05 points to trade at 440.20 at the close. Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) added 3.14% or 12.05 points to end at 395.80 and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (NS:HPCL) was up 2.44% or 9.15 points to 383.85 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (NS:HDFC), which lost 4.14% or 78.90 points to trade at 1823.35 in late trade. Larsen & Toubro Ltd (NS:LART) declined 3.40% or 48.15 points to end at 1363.65 and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK) shed 2.63% or 46.30 points to 1713.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which rose 4.20% to 439.50, Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which was up 3.12% to settle at 396.05 and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which gained 2.08% to close at 196.50.
The worst performers were Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (BO:HDFC) which was down 4.06% to 1825.95 in late trade, Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which lost 3.65% to settle at 1362.75 and Bajaj Auto Ltd (BO:BAJA) which was down 2.12% to 3174.00 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 994 to 635 and 26 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1646 fell and 1075 advanced, while 164 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 5.26% to 16.0525.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.24% or 3.20 to $1340.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.26% or 0.17 to hit $65.28 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.67% or 0.46 to trade at $68.12 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.27% to 64.058, while EUR/INR fell 0.04% to 79.8800.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.11% at 88.94.