Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Public Sector Undertakings and Power sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.56%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.49%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Titan Company Ltd (NS:TITN), which rose 1.73% or 22.35 points to trade at 1315.80 at the close. Nestle India Ltd (NS:NEST) added 1.58% or 258.50 points to end at 16614.95 and Vedanta Ltd (NS:VDAN) was up 0.85% or 1.20 points to 142.30 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Yes Bank Ltd (NS:YESB), which lost 3.98% or 1.55 points to trade at 37.35 in late trade. Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL) declined 3.81% or 6.65 points to end at 168.10 and GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL) shed 3.71% or 4.55 points to 118.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which rose 1.86% to 1316.35, Nestle India Ltd (BO:NEST) which was up 1.70% to settle at 16629.40 and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which gained 0.89% to close at 2203.25.
The worst performers were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which was down 3.20% to 99.95 in late trade, Hero MotoCorp Ltd (BO:HROM) which lost 3.07% to settle at 2284.35 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 2.37% to 408.65 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1110 to 462 and 76 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1645 fell and 783 advanced, while 144 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 5.88% to 14.4150.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.19% or 2.95 to $1583.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 0.06% or 0.03 to hit $52.35 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.03% or 0.02 to trade at $57.30 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.22% to 71.372, while EUR/INR fell 0.08% to 77.4170.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.03% at 98.975.