Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the IT, Technology and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.01%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.04%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Divi's Laboratories Ltd. (NS:DIVI), which rose 3.26% or 150.30 points to trade at 4757.60 at the close. Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) added 2.99% or 15.70 points to end at 541.15 and UltraTech Cement Ltd (NS:ULTC) was up 1.82% or 130.50 points to 7320.15 in late trade.
Biggest losers included HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:HCLT), which lost 3.34% or 34.75 points to trade at 1005.00 in late trade. Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) declined 1.88% or 50.25 points to end at 2617.25 and Bajaj Finserv Ltd (NS:BJFS) shed 1.65% or 213.25 points to 12745.70.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which rose 2.94% to 541.00, UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:ULTC) which was up 1.95% to settle at 7331.40 and Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which gained 1.77% to close at 1278.30.
The worst performers were HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which was down 3.38% to 1004.90 in late trade, Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which lost 1.60% to settle at 1555.00 and Bajaj Finserv Ltd (BO:BJFS) which was down 1.56% to 12754.00 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 860 to 832 and 34 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1699 rose and 1352 declined, while 135 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 4.60% to 11.7050 a new 52-week low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.33% or 6.10 to $1822.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.28% or 0.20 to hit $71.85 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.23% or 0.17 to trade at $73.64 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.06% to 74.584, while EUR/INR rose 0.01% to 88.0530.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.04% at 92.672.