Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Auto, Power and Metals sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.91%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 0.92%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH), which rose 2.82% or 444.80 points to trade at 16407.25 at the close. Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:TEML) added 3.85% or 26.80 points to end at 721.75 and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (NS:MRTI) was up 3.87% or 231.25 points to 6186.95 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:INBF), which lost 4.57% or 20.45 points to trade at 425.70 in late trade. Yes Bank Ltd (NS:YESB) declined 1.94% or 1.20 points to end at 60.40 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) shed 1.57% or 6.80 points to 425.10.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which rose 3.77% to 721.55, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which was up 3.61% to settle at 6185.85 and AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which gained 3.35% to close at 671.00.
The worst performers were Yes Bank Ltd (BO:YESB) which was down 2.42% to 60.40 in late trade, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which lost 1.63% to settle at 424.90 and HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which was down 0.86% to 1101.50 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1067 to 499 and 70 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1521 rose and 878 declined, while 141 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 5.78% to 16.2750.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.61% or 9.35 to $1516.15 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 1.46% or 0.82 to hit $55.48 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 1.43% or 0.87 to trade at $60.08 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.34% to 71.665, while EUR/INR fell 0.40% to 79.0285.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.07% at 98.455.