Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Consumer Durables and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.57%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.53%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:INBF), which rose 8.93% or 58.40 points to trade at 713.15 at the close. Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) added 4.03% or 871.70 points to end at 22425.10 and ICICI Bank Ltd (NS:ICBK) was up 4.04% or 12.75 points to 327.10 in late trade.
Biggest losers included IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK), which lost 6.96% or 109.70 points to trade at 1449.45 in late trade. Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) declined 4.51% or 12.80 points to end at 271.15 and UltraTech Cement Ltd (NS:ULTC) shed 3.95% or 142.60 points to 3463.25.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which rose 3.84% to 327.00, NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which was up 1.95% to settle at 165.00 and Bajaj Auto Ltd (BO:BAJA) which gained 1.86% to close at 2556.80.
The worst performers were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was down 8.52% to 1442.20 in late trade, Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which lost 3.56% to settle at 1062.45 and Tata Motors Ltd DVR (BO:TAMdv) which was down 3.18% to 92.90 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1180 to 420 and 58 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1745 fell and 778 advanced, while 136 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 7.93% to 21.3575 a new 52-week high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.25% or 3.00 to $1226.70 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.42% or 0.29 to hit $69.41 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.30% or 0.24 to trade at $80.02 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.05% to 73.435, while EUR/INR rose 0.01% to 84.5005.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.07% at 95.51.