Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Real Estate, Consumer Durables and Auto sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 1.30%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 1.51%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Larsen & Toubro Ltd (NS:LART), which rose 6.35% or 51.60 points to trade at 864.40 at the close. Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC) added 6.00% or 6.45 points to end at 114.00 and Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) was up 4.46% or 21.80 points to 510.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:BJFN), which lost 10.26% or 261.85 points to trade at 2290.00 in late trade. Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE) declined 8.44% or 12.65 points to end at 137.20 and Bajaj Finserv Ltd (NS:BJFS) shed 6.85% or 330.25 points to 4490.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which rose 6.57% to 865.70, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was up 4.64% to settle at 511.75 and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which gained 3.76% to close at 410.30.
The worst performers were Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which was down 10.27% to 2288.50 in late trade, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which lost 4.80% to settle at 362.90 and Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which was down 4.73% to 967.35 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 779 to 755 and 80 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1146 rose and 1119 declined, while 199 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 3.44% to 51.4575.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.51% or 9.00 to $1743.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 1.23% or 0.28 to hit $23.04 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.13% or 0.04 to trade at $31.52 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.50% to 76.249, while EUR/INR rose 0.27% to 83.2450.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 99.490.