Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Healthcare, Oil & Gas and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.43%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.38%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Yes Bank Ltd (NS:YESB), which rose 7.59% or 3.20 points to trade at 45.65 at the close. Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE) added 5.62% or 13.30 points to end at 251.50 and Britannia Industries Ltd (NS:BRIT) was up 3.88% or 110.30 points to 2953.35 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL), which lost 5.17% or 26.65 points to trade at 490.65 in late trade. Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:INBF) declined 3.77% or 9.25 points to end at 234.25 and JSW Steel Ltd (NS:JSTL) shed 3.07% or 6.60 points to 208.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Yes Bank Ltd (BO:YESB) which rose 8.19% to 45.60, AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which was up 2.53% to settle at 672.75 and Bajaj Auto Ltd (BO:BAJA) which gained 1.03% to close at 2893.50.
The worst performers were Tata Motors Ltd DVR (BO:TAMdv) which was down 3.17% to 51.90 in late trade, Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which lost 2.49% to settle at 324.80 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which was down 2.43% to 126.45 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1063 to 510 and 75 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1556 fell and 841 advanced, while 210 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.42% to 17.8300 a new 1-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.41% or 6.20 to $1506.70 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 0.59% or 0.31 to hit $53.12 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.50% or 0.29 to trade at $58.66 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.34% to 71.062, while EUR/INR rose 0.36% to 77.9985.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.09% at 98.572.