Investing.com – India equities were mixed at the close on Monday, as gains in the IT, Technology and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher while losses in the Metals, Fast Moving Consumer Goods and Auto sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.05%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.19%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Yes Bank Ltd (NS:YESB), which rose 18.53% or 4.65 points to trade at 29.75 at the close. Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) added 4.23% or 3.25 points to end at 80.10 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) was up 3.88% or 17.75 points to 474.85 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC), which lost 5.64% or 7.00 points to trade at 117.15 in late trade. JSW Steel Ltd (NS:JSTL) declined 5.56% or 9.85 points to end at 167.45 and AXIS Bank Ltd (NS:AXBK) shed 5.39% or 25.80 points to 453.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:HDBK) which rose 3.91% to 946.00, Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which was up 3.75% to settle at 652.90 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which gained 3.59% to close at 473.40.
The worst performers were AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which was down 5.10% to 455.55 in late trade, ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which lost 3.91% to settle at 180.75 and ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which was down 3.84% to 361.50 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 984 to 563 and 71 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1414 rose and 949 declined, while 166 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 2.03% to 43.4550.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.25% or 4.20 to $1694.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 9.03% or 2.26 to hit $22.77 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 3.63% or 1.02 to trade at $27.06 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.01% to 76.546, while EUR/INR fell 0.02% to 83.1445.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.18% at 100.020.