Investing.com – India equities were mixed at the close on Friday, as gains in the Public Sector Undertakings, Oil & Gas and Capital Goods sectors propelled shares higher while losses in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Healthcare and Consumer Durables sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.09% to hit a new all time high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.07%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC), which rose 4.06% or 11.25 points to trade at 288.30 at the close. Reliance Industries Ltd (NS:RELI) added 2.64% or 81.95 points to end at 3,190.00 and State Bank Of India (NS:SBI) was up 2.50% or 20.95 points to 860.25 in late trade.
Biggest losers included HDFC Bank Ltd (NS:HDBK), which lost 4.47% or 77.15 points to trade at 1,650.00 in late trade. Titan Company Ltd (NS:TITN) declined 1.90% or 63.50 points to end at 3,272.50 and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM) shed 0.92% or 26.80 points to 2,876.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which rose 2.58% to 3,188.00, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was up 2.47% to settle at 860.00 and NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which gained 1.90% to close at 380.00.
The worst performers were HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:HDBK) which was down 4.40% to 1,650.70 in late trade, Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which lost 1.84% to settle at 3,274.35 and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which was down 0.82% to 2,879.70 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1311 to 949 and 22 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2157 rose and 1616 declined, while 90 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.24% to 12.69 a new 1-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.16% or 3.85 to $2,373.25 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.07% or 0.06 to hit $83.94 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 0.08% or 0.07 to trade at $87.36 a barrel.
USD/INR was unchanged 0.00% to 83.50, while EUR/INR rose 0.12% to 90.39.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.40% at 104.65.