Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Real Estate and Power sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.84%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.86%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY), which rose 3.85% or 96.00 points to trade at 2593.40 at the close. Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) added 2.34% or 655.25 points to end at 28885.85 and Wipro Ltd (NS:WIPR) was up 2.62% or 7.90 points to 308.35 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:BJFN), which lost 4.78% or 136.50 points to trade at 2724.05 in late trade. Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (NS:HLL) declined 4.51% or 80.30 points to end at 1699.10 and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (NS:PGRD) shed 3.62% or 7.30 points to 194.50.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Wipro Ltd (BO:WIPR) which rose 2.49% to 309.15, Tata Motors Ltd DVR (BO:TAMdv) which was up 1.34% to settle at 144.10 and Bajaj Auto Ltd (BO:BAJA) which gained 0.68% to close at 2765.15.
The worst performers were Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which was down 4.58% to 1699.05 in late trade, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which lost 2.92% to settle at 194.75 and AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which was down 2.69% to 631.75 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 854 to 768 and 52 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1384 fell and 1297 advanced, while 176 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 6.31% to 13.3925 a new 1-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.22% or 2.70 to $1207.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October rose 0.21% or 0.15 to hit $69.92 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 0.57% or 0.44 to trade at $78.08 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.30% to 71.085, while EUR/INR rose 0.24% to 82.5630.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.02% at 95.07.