Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Metals, Public Sector Undertakings and Healthcare sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 1.06%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.96%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were UPL Ltd (NS:UPLL), which rose 6.21% or 32.45 points to trade at 555.00 at the close. Reliance Industries Ltd (NS:RELI) added 1.82% or 35.35 points to end at 1972.80 and Titan Company Ltd (NS:TITN) was up 1.40% or 20.75 points to 1498.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO), which lost 6.07% or 15.80 points to trade at 244.50 in late trade. Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC) declined 5.79% or 40.90 points to end at 665.00 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC) shed 4.93% or 5.00 points to 96.40.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which rose 2.37% to 1983.50, Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which was up 1.57% to settle at 1499.50 and HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:HDBK) which gained 1.04% to close at 1481.60.
The worst performers were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which was down 4.59% to 96.70 in late trade, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which lost 4.16% to settle at 578.90 and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which was down 3.89% to 195.15 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1344 to 335 and 52 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2002 fell and 889 advanced, while 137 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.60% to 24.3950 a new 1-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.17% or 3.05 to $1832.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.19% or 0.10 to hit $52.32 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 0.31% or 0.17 to trade at $54.93 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.24% to 73.295, while EUR/INR rose 0.08% to 88.4085.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.15% at 90.892.