Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Public Sector Undertakings, Oil & Gas and Metals sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.75%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.70%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC), which rose 3.55% or 8.30 points to trade at 241.85 at the close. Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) added 3.26% or 35.40 points to end at 1,122.45 and NTPC Ltd (NS:NTPC) was up 3.09% or 9.25 points to 308.55 in late trade.
Biggest losers included IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK), which lost 3.25% or 52.40 points to trade at 1,560.50 in late trade. Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (NS:KTKM) declined 0.92% or 16.35 points to end at 1,760.90 and HDFC Bank Ltd (NS:HDBK) shed 0.82% or 12.15 points to 1,474.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which rose 3.25% to 1,122.00, NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which was up 3.04% to settle at 308.45 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which gained 2.56% to close at 1,390.00.
The worst performers were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was down 3.24% to 1,560.85 in late trade, HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:HDBK) which lost 1.08% to settle at 1,470.70 and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which was down 0.66% to 1,765.75 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1418 to 701 and 49 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2356 rose and 1313 declined, while 103 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.37% to 13.88.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.50% or 10.05 to $2,031.65 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.77% or 0.57 to hit $74.52 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.68% or 0.54 to trade at $79.64 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.10% to 83.08, while EUR/INR fell 0.09% to 90.35.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.13% at 103.18.