Investing.com – India equities were mixed at the close on Monday, as gains in the Real Estate, Technology and IT sectors propelled shares higher while losses in the Consumer Durables, Public Sector Undertakings and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.15%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.02%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Britannia Industries Ltd (NS:BRIT), which rose 6.75% or 320.30 points to trade at 5,064.90 at the close. Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (NS:KTKM) added 5.03% or 77.80 points to end at 1,624.50 and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (NS:TCS) was up 2.03% or 78.20 points to 3,921.60 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Titan Company Ltd (NS:TITN), which lost 7.10% or 250.90 points to trade at 3,283.00 in late trade. Adani Enterprises Ltd (NS:ADEL) declined 4.03% or 120.55 points to end at 2,872.70 and Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL) shed 3.00% or 14.25 points to 460.35.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which rose 5.02% to 1,624.85, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was up 2.13% to settle at 3,921.00 and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which gained 2.01% to close at 2,259.95.
The worst performers were Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which was down 7.09% to 3,284.90 in late trade, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which lost 2.67% to settle at 809.35 and NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which was down 2.36% to 356.50 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1639 to 601 and 46 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2530 fell and 1238 advanced, while 167 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 13.56% to 16.60 a new 52-week high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.87% or 20.00 to $2,328.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 1.04% or 0.81 to hit $78.92 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.86% or 0.71 to trade at $83.67 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.18% to 83.53, while EUR/INR rose 0.32% to 89.94.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.03% at 104.94.