Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Auto, Banking and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 1.08%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 1.13%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were JSW Steel Ltd (NS:JSTL), which rose 2.57% or 6.65 points to trade at 265.25 at the close. Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL) added 2.33% or 3.00 points to end at 131.95 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) was up 1.97% or 10.25 points to 531.05 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH), which lost 7.15% or 1548.95 points to trade at 20124.00 in late trade. Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) declined 4.80% or 6.30 points to end at 124.85 and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM) shed 3.27% or 20.65 points to 610.80.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which rose 2.15% to 532.00, NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which was up 1.61% to settle at 88.60 and Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which gained 1.26% to close at 418.45.
The worst performers were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which was down 3.29% to 610.50 in late trade, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which lost 2.68% to settle at 196.45 and Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which was down 2.57% to 3330.90 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1033 to 581 and 75 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1548 fell and 1018 advanced, while 125 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 5.37% to 21.6725.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.77% or 15.20 to $1955.20 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.52% or 0.22 to hit $42.02 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.44% or 0.20 to trade at $44.76 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.13% to 74.906, while EUR/INR rose 0.07% to 88.4305.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.07% at 93.250.