Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Banking, Green Energy and Power sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.40%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.36%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Reliance Industries Ltd (NS:RELI), which rose 1.27% or 13.85 points to trade at 1102.80 at the close. HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:HCLT) added 1.06% or 8.40 points to end at 797.25 and Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. (NS:REDY) was up 1.04% or 32.90 points to 3182.20 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AXIS Bank Ltd. (NS:AXBK), which lost 5.80% or 34.35 points to trade at 557.45 in late trade. ACC Ltd (NS:ACC) declined 2.94% or 49.05 points to end at 1617.00 and Lupin Ltd (NS:LUPN) shed 2.56% or 39.20 points to 1489.45.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which rose 1.41% to 1102.95, Vedanta Ltd (BO:VDAN) which was up 1.10% to settle at 170.00 and Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. (BO:REDY) which gained 1.05% to close at 3181.10.
The worst performers were AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which was down 5.84% to 557.40 in late trade, Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which lost 1.46% to settle at 1043.00 and ICICI Bank Ltd. (BO:ICBK) which was down 1.36% to 271.80 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 929 to 549 and 68 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1471 fell and 1145 advanced, while 244 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 0.69% to 13.2475.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 0.20% or 2.75 to $1341.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.09% or 0.04 to hit $46.28 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 0.61% or 0.29 to trade at $47.94 a barrel.
USD/INR was unchanged 0.00% to 66.635, while EUR/INR rose 0.07% to 74.7450.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.02% at 95.33.