Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Public Sector Undertakings and Metals sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.86%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.81%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Yes Bank Ltd (NS:YESB), which rose 4.82% or 3.20 points to trade at 68.95 at the close. IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK) added 2.90% or 40.10 points to end at 1422.80 and ICICI Bank Ltd (NS:ICBK) was up 2.39% or 11.45 points to 489.45 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bharti Infratel Ltd (NS:BHRI), which lost 4.92% or 11.30 points to trade at 218.30 in late trade. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) declined 4.30% or 18.95 points to end at 422.10 and GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL) shed 3.90% or 5.15 points to 127.05.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Yes Bank Ltd (BO:YESB) which rose 3.76% to 69.00, IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was up 3.08% to settle at 1423.50 and ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which gained 2.25% to close at 489.45.
The worst performers were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 4.23% to 421.80 in late trade, Vedanta Ltd (BO:VDAN) which lost 3.39% to settle at 155.50 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which was down 2.64% to 138.35 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 961 to 582 and 75 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1410 fell and 991 advanced, while 161 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 4.26% to 15.8550.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.07% or 1.05 to $1467.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 1.54% or 0.88 to hit $56.27 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 1.53% or 0.95 to trade at $61.34 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.29% to 71.248, while EUR/INR rose 0.21% to 78.6570.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.08% at 98.065.