Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Real Estate, Metals and Consumer Durables sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.35%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.39%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK), which rose 3.19% or 31.80 points to trade at 1029.50 at the close. Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (NS:APSE) added 2.47% or 17.15 points to end at 710.70 and Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (NS:IOC) was up 1.88% or 1.95 points to 105.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL), which lost 3.61% or 34.10 points to trade at 911.30 in late trade. Reliance Industries Ltd (NS:RELI) declined 2.12% or 45.20 points to end at 2089.05 and Shree Cements Ltd. (NS:SHCM) shed 1.89% or 546.65 points to 28420.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which rose 3.11% to 1029.20, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was up 1.49% to settle at 607.80 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which gained 1.37% to close at 1264.90.
The worst performers were Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which was down 2.07% to 2089.05 in late trade, UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:ULTC) which lost 1.70% to settle at 7527.30 and State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was down 1.40% to 435.65 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 946 to 742 and 39 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1728 rose and 1339 declined, while 107 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 2.06% to 12.6075.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.53% or 9.65 to $1799.25 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 1.27% or 0.88 to hit $69.97 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 1.22% or 0.87 to trade at $72.16 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.07% to 74.148, while EUR/INR fell 0.13% to 87.5580.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.18% at 92.418.