Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Real Estate, Oil & Gas and Metals sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 2.18% to hit a new 3-month low, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 2.09%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL), which rose 3.91% or 33.60 points to trade at 893.80 at the close. Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (NS:HLL) added 1.74% or 38.85 points to end at 2269.10 and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY) was up 0.95% or 42.75 points to 4560.70 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL), which lost 6.42% or 24.70 points to trade at 360.00 in late trade. Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC) declined 5.22% or 59.15 points to end at 1072.95 and Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) shed 4.92% or 23.15 points to 447.05.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which rose 1.70% to 2268.30, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (BO:REDY) which was up 0.94% to settle at 4559.35 and Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which lost 0.05% to close at 3240.05.
The worst performers were Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which was down 5.20% to 1072.95 in late trade, IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which lost 4.23% to settle at 845.85 and State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was down 3.97% to 449.20 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1619 to 198 and 31 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2621 fell and 728 advanced, while 117 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 16.08% to 18.9650.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.38% or 6.80 to $1798.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 3.75% or 2.66 to hit $68.20 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 3.05% or 2.24 to trade at $71.28 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.15% to 75.873, while EUR/INR rose 0.08% to 85.4710.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 96.555.