Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Auto, Consumer Durables and Power sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.28%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.31%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (NS:MRTI), which rose 4.26% or 290.45 points to trade at 7102.00 at the close. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM) added 3.30% or 19.95 points to end at 624.30 and Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC) was up 3.27% or 13.40 points to 423.05 in late trade.
Biggest losers included UltraTech Cement Ltd (NS:ULTC), which lost 2.44% or 112.55 points to trade at 4502.00 in late trade. HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:HCLT) declined 1.59% or 13.75 points to end at 852.50 and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (NS:HLL) shed 1.56% or 33.95 points to 2145.40.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which rose 4.44% to 7108.45, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which was up 3.28% to settle at 624.90 and Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which gained 3.21% to close at 423.10.
The worst performers were UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:ULTC) which was down 2.36% to 4503.75 in late trade, HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which lost 1.63% to settle at 853.00 and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which was down 1.56% to 2145.40 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1072 to 548 and 73 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1630 rose and 1007 declined, while 148 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 3.57% to 21.8275.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.45% or 8.55 to $1913.15 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.54% or 0.22 to hit $40.86 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.66% or 0.28 to trade at $42.74 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.03% to 73.641, while EUR/INR rose 0.21% to 87.2235.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.20% at 92.778.