Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Auto, IT and Capital Goods sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.05%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.04%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bajaj Auto Ltd (NS:BAJA), which rose 4.75% or 470.75 points to trade at 10,384.95 at the close. Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL) added 1.72% or 9.10 points to end at 537.95 and Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) was up 1.59% or 23.65 points to 1,510.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC), which lost 1.77% or 5.75 points to trade at 318.60 in late trade. LTIMindtree Ltd (NS:LTIM) declined 1.27% or 72.40 points to end at 5,632.00 and Wipro Ltd (NS:WIPR) shed 1.16% or 6.00 points to 513.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which rose 1.58% to 1,085.50, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was up 1.44% to settle at 1,775.75 and Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which gained 1.40% to close at 1,507.05.
The worst performers were Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which was down 1.17% to 1,592.00 in late trade, Wipro Ltd (BO:WIPR) which lost 1.07% to settle at 513.20 and HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which was down 0.93% to 1,660.00 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1315 to 1142 and 24 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1992 rose and 1783 declined, while 108 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 3.88% to 13.51.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.64% or 16.20 to $2,532.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October rose 1.14% or 0.83 to hit $73.84 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 1.01% or 0.78 to trade at $78.00 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.03% to 83.90, while EUR/INR rose 0.02% to 93.27.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.08% at 101.32.