Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Consumer Durables and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.90% to hit a new 1-month low, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.83%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were ITC Ltd (NS:ITC), which rose 2.25% or 10.60 points to trade at 482.30 at the close. Axis Bank Ltd (NS:AXBK) added 1.88% or 22.00 points to end at 1,189.35 and Britannia Industries Ltd (NS:BRIT) was up 1.02% or 57.00 points to 5,669.40 in late trade.
Biggest losers included IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK), which lost 18.63% or 238.45 points to trade at 1,041.60 in late trade. Adani Enterprises Ltd (NS:ADEL) declined 4.83% or 136.75 points to end at 2,693.45 and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) shed 4.71% or 15.15 points to 306.30.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which rose 2.24% to 482.40, Axis Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which was up 1.85% to settle at 1,189.60 and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which gained 0.96% to close at 2,527.00.
The worst performers were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was down 18.79% to 1,038.60 in late trade, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which lost 3.56% to settle at 2,727.35 and Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which was down 3.01% to 3,339.40 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 2150 to 339 and 85 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2941 fell and 814 advanced, while 76 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 4.08% to 14.54.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.66% or 18.05 to $2,730.85 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.71% or 0.50 to hit $70.69 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.65% or 0.48 to trade at $74.86 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.01% to 84.08, while EUR/INR unchanged 0.00% to 91.03.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 103.91.