Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Capital Goods, Fast Moving Consumer Goods and Banking sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.05%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.08%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Larsen & Toubro Ltd (NS:LART), which rose 3.83% or 43.30 points to trade at 1172.40 at the close. Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) added 1.56% or 6.20 points to end at 403.50 and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (NS:KTKM) was up 1.41% or 14.05 points to 1007.55 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM), which lost 3.36% or 45.00 points to trade at 1294.95 in late trade. Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY) declined 2.87% or 63.95 points to end at 2161.00 and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) shed 2.05% or 10.75 points to 513.35.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which rose 4.07% to 1172.30, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was up 1.65% to settle at 404.00 and HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:HDBK) which gained 0.98% to close at 1788.00.
The worst performers were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which was down 3.29% to 1294.70 in late trade, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (BO:REDY) which lost 2.93% to settle at 2158.80 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 1.87% to 471.05 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 950 to 598 and 23 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1468 fell and 1079 advanced, while 124 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 0.35% to 12.9625.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.67% or 9.08 to $1359.38 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 0.29% or 0.14 to hit $48.95 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 0.51% or 0.28 to trade at $54.77 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.16% to 63.861, while EUR/INR rose 0.14% to 77.0764.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.45% at 91.08.