Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Banking, Real Estate and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.72% to hit a new all time high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.71%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:INBF), which rose 4.79% or 59.60 points to trade at 1301.80 at the close. Adani Port and Special Economic Zone Ltd (NS:APSE) added 4.20% or 17.50 points to end at 433.45 and Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:BJFN) was up 2.73% or 45.30 points to 1701.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Ambuja Cements Ltd. (NS:ABUJ), which lost 2.68% or 7.40 points to trade at 268.60 in late trade. UltraTech Cement Ltd (NS:ULTC) declined 2.35% or 103.65 points to end at 4300.00 and Infosys Ltd (NS:INFY) shed 0.59% or 6.80 points to 1143.45.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Adani Port and Special Economic Zone Ltd (BO:APSE) which rose 4.68% to 433.75, ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which was up 2.15% to settle at 353.55 and State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which gained 2.08% to close at 309.05.
The worst performers were Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which was down 0.82% to 1143.25 in late trade, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which lost 0.74% to settle at 572.00 and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which was down 0.61% to 196.00 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 814 to 796 and 29 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1436 fell and 1379 advanced, while 134 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 0.16% to 13.9825.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.61% or 8.10 to $1335.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.45% or 0.29 to hit $63.66 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 0.52% or 0.36 to trade at $68.95 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.18% to 63.758, while EUR/INR rose 0.09% to 78.2365.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.21% at 90.12.