Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the IT, Technology and Healthcare sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 1.87%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 1.76%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tech Mahindra Limited (NS:TEML), which rose 5.83% or 26.75 points to trade at 485.40 at the close. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (NS:TCS) added 5.09% or 111.35 points to end at 2299.80 and Infosys Ltd (NS:INFY) was up 4.77% or 44.40 points to 974.70 in late trade.
Biggest losers included ACC Ltd (NS:ACC), which lost 1.22% or 16.15 points to trade at 1309.00 in late trade. Bharti Infratel Limited (NS:BHRI) declined 1.22% or 4.400 points to end at 356.000 and Bajaj Auto Limited (NS:BAJA) shed 0.79% or 20.90 points to 2610.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which rose 5.23% to 2300.85, Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which was up 4.78% to settle at 977.30 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which gained 4.18% to close at 712.15.
The worst performers were Bajaj Auto Limited (BO:BAJA) which was down 0.74% to 2612.85 in late trade, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which lost 0.29% to settle at 260.95 and Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was down 0.22% to 300.85 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1236 to 262 and 36 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2002 rose and 579 declined, while 158 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 2.64% to 17.6125.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 0.12% or 1.45 to $1187.85 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.77% or 0.37 to hit $47.59 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.90% or 0.44 to trade at $48.56 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.46% to 68.445, while EUR/INR fell 0.09% to 72.4940.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.28% at 101.48.