Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, IT and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 1.11%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 1.11%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO), which rose 6.73% or 16.50 points to trade at 261.60 at the close. Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) added 3.95% or 22.95 points to end at 603.50 and UPL Ltd (NS:UPLL) was up 2.54% or 12.95 points to 522.35 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:TEML), which lost 3.95% or 41.60 points to trade at 1011.00 in late trade. HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:HCLT) declined 3.77% or 38.70 points to end at 989.00 and Wipro Ltd (NS:WIPR) shed 3.64% or 16.55 points to 437.80.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which rose 3.84% to 602.50, ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which was up 1.77% to settle at 217.90 and Bajaj Auto Ltd (BO:BAJA) which gained 0.16% to close at 3580.00.
The worst performers were Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which was down 3.92% to 1011.70 in late trade, HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which lost 3.73% to settle at 989.40 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which was down 3.48% to 101.35 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1201 to 445 and 73 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1853 fell and 1043 advanced, while 132 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 4.27% to 24.0100 a new 1-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.18% or 3.30 to $1854.70 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 1.42% or 0.76 to hit $52.81 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 1.67% or 0.94 to trade at $55.48 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.02% to 73.058, while EUR/INR fell 0.16% to 88.6775.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.14% at 90.338.