Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Metals, Banking and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.97%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.87%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC), which rose 7.19% or 36.70 points to trade at 545.25 at the close. Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) added 3.78% or 13.55 points to end at 371.05 and GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL) was up 2.87% or 9.85 points to 353.40 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO), which lost 2.88% or 6.40 points to trade at 215.60 in late trade. Bajaj Auto Ltd (NS:BAJA) declined 1.40% or 43.35 points to end at 3044.65 and Grasim Industries Ltd (NS:GRAS) shed 1.46% or 13.50 points to 913.45.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which rose 6.67% to 545.00, ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which was up 3.05% to settle at 407.40 and AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which gained 2.61% to close at 760.20.
The worst performers were Tata Motors Ltd DVR (BO:TAMdv) which was down 3.72% to 103.60 in late trade, Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which lost 2.84% to settle at 215.40 and Bajaj Auto Ltd (BO:BAJA) which was down 1.21% to 3040.75 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 925 to 639 and 83 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1393 fell and 1031 advanced, while 149 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 6.52% to 21.7175.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.25% or 3.15 to $1282.85 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 1.64% or 1.07 to hit $64.14 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 1.87% or 1.39 to trade at $72.96 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.27% to 69.972, while EUR/INR fell 0.18% to 77.9435.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.03% at 97.887.