Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Metals, Banking and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.10%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.13%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN), which rose 10.09% or 70.95 points to trade at 773.95 at the close. Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:TEML) added 7.25% or 81.75 points to end at 1209.55 and Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL) was up 4.18% or 36.95 points to 920.05 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC), which lost 2.90% or 13.30 points to trade at 444.80 in late trade. Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:BJFN) declined 2.69% or 172.00 points to end at 6228.10 and SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:SBIL) shed 2.68% or 30.25 points to 1098.60.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which rose 10.06% to 774.00, Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which was up 7.24% to settle at 1209.45 and Bajaj Auto Ltd (BO:BAJA) which gained 2.18% to close at 3845.00.
The worst performers were Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which was down 2.59% to 6228.90 in late trade, Bajaj Finserv Ltd (BO:BJFS) which lost 2.53% to settle at 14221.30 and State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was down 2.28% to 431.70 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 920 to 765 and 47 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1746 rose and 1338 declined, while 120 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.10% to 12.8025.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.20% or 3.75 to $1827.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.31% or 0.23 to hit $73.39 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.31% or 0.23 to trade at $74.87 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.21% to 74.399, while EUR/INR rose 0.31% to 88.5240.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.02% at 91.852.