Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Public Sector Undertakings and Consumer Durables sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.85%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 0.76%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL), which rose 6.38% or 24.50 points to trade at 408.55 at the close. Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (NS:IOC) added 4.82% or 6.00 points to end at 130.10 and Titan Company Ltd (NS:TITN) was up 3.50% or 38.00 points to 1123.40 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:INBF), which lost 2.55% or 11.45 points to trade at 442.25 in late trade. Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) declined 1.02% or 3.55 points to end at 343.05 and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY) shed 1.39% or 38.40 points to 2731.55.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Vedanta Ltd (BO:VDAN) which rose 2.72% to 149.20, ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which was up 2.61% to settle at 413.25 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which gained 2.34% to close at 128.80.
The worst performers were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 1.04% to 423.25 in late trade, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which lost 0.83% to settle at 344.55 and HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:HDBK) which was down 0.62% to 2256.25 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 995 to 569 and 72 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1462 rose and 908 declined, while 154 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 5.23% to 14.1200 a new 1-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.32% or 4.75 to $1512.15 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 0.07% or 0.04 to hit $55.05 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 0.25% or 0.15 to trade at $60.23 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.11% to 71.017, while EUR/INR rose 0.44% to 78.8080.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.27% at 98.045.