Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Banking and Metals sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.91%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.93%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (NS:APSE), which rose 1.60% or 18.45 points to trade at 1,172.70 at the close. Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC) added 0.55% or 1.20 points to end at 217.65 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) was up 0.52% or 6.80 points to 1,307.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included UPL Ltd (NS:UPLL), which lost 3.44% or 20.00 points to trade at 561.25 in late trade. SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:SBIL) declined 2.23% or 32.45 points to end at 1,421.70 and State Bank Of India (NS:SBI) shed 2.19% or 14.05 points to 627.90.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which rose 1.02% to 1,447.45, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which was up 0.46% to settle at 242.40 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which gained 0.44% to close at 1,305.60.
The worst performers were State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was down 2.31% to 627.05 in late trade, ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which lost 1.80% to settle at 465.35 and Nestle India Ltd (BO:NEST) which was down 1.79% to 2,619.20 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1288 to 877 and 39 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1939 fell and 1901 advanced, while 98 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 6.59% to 13.46.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.76% or 15.50 to $2,034.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 2.37% or 1.75 to hit $72.06 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 2.23% or 1.76 to trade at $77.00 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.06% to 83.14, while EUR/INR rose 0.20% to 90.93.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.06% at 102.19.