Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Capital Goods, Technology and IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.29%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.36%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY), which rose 1.79% or 94.95 points to trade at 5404.25 at the close. Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC) added 1.70% or 6.40 points to end at 382.30 and Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC) was up 1.61% or 18.75 points to 1184.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:HDFL), which lost 4.10% or 29.75 points to trade at 696.20 in late trade. Titan Company Ltd (NS:TITN) declined 1.47% or 25.80 points to end at 1728.05 and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (NS:TCS) shed 1.30% or 44.05 points to 3336.75.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (BO:REDY) which rose 1.75% to 5404.10, Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which was up 1.64% to settle at 1184.05 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which gained 1.43% to close at 1104.80.
The worst performers were Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which was down 1.56% to 1728.00 in late trade, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which lost 1.33% to settle at 3335.60 and HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which was down 1.00% to 985.55 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 935 to 783 and 48 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1780 rose and 1398 declined, while 141 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 0.26% to 13.4025.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.05% or 0.85 to $1776.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 0.08% or 0.06 to hit $73.99 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 0.27% or 0.20 to trade at $75.18 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.02% to 74.195, while EUR/INR fell 0.01% to 88.5555.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 91.787.