Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Banking and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.56%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.51%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Divi's Laboratories Ltd. (NS:DIVI), which rose 2.55% or 72.20 points to trade at 2,902.00 at the close. UltraTech Cement Ltd (NS:ULTC) added 1.62% or 118.20 points to end at 7,416.05 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:TEML) was up 1.40% or 15.80 points to 1,145.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL), which lost 6.02% or 61.75 points to trade at 964.00 in late trade. Adani Enterprises Ltd (NS:ADEL) declined 5.88% or 101.25 points to end at 1,621.45 and Britannia Industries Ltd (NS:BRIT) shed 1.90% or 86.25 points to 4,447.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:ULTC) which rose 1.75% to 7,426.80, Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which was up 1.35% to settle at 1,144.10 and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which gained 0.91% to close at 215.70.
The worst performers were Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (BO:HDFC) which was down 1.33% to 2,655.20 in late trade, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which lost 1.33% to settle at 8,690.35 and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which was down 1.26% to 1,737.25 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1245 to 682 and 64 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2090 fell and 1355 advanced, while 163 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 2.27% to 13.38.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.17% or 3.15 to $1,853.35 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 0.84% or 0.64 to hit $77.19 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.83% or 0.69 to trade at $83.69 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.03% to 82.72, while EUR/INR fell 0.11% to 88.40.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.02% at 103.80.