Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Metals, Power and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.26%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.31%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL), which rose 5.34% or 44.95 points to trade at 886.95 at the close. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) added 3.54% or 21.75 points to end at 636.00 and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (NS:HLL) was up 2.55% or 61.45 points to 2471.35 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:BJFN), which lost 3.01% or 151.50 points to trade at 4878.00 in late trade. UPL Ltd (NS:UPLL) declined 2.40% or 15.65 points to end at 635.95 and Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC) shed 2.16% or 19.85 points to 898.55.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which rose 3.69% to 636.95, Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which was up 2.51% to settle at 2470.05 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which gained 2.37% to close at 1052.65.
The worst performers were Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which was down 3.12% to 4873.20 in late trade, UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:ULTC) which lost 2.16% to settle at 6826.05 and NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which was down 1.95% to 102.90 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 941 to 692 and 78 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1595 rose and 1206 declined, while 155 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 2.60% to 19.7850 a new 3-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.72% or 12.65 to $1745.55 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.07% or 0.04 to hit $59.64 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.08% or 0.05 to trade at $63.15 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.17% to 74.702, while EUR/INR rose 0.02% to 88.8465.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.22% at 92.267.