Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Metals, Oil & Gas and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 1.28%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 1.25%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Yes Bank Ltd (NS:YESB), which rose 0.74% or 0.85 points to trade at 116.15 at the close. Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE) added 0.36% or 1.20 points to end at 338.10 and Wipro Ltd (NS:WIPR) was up 0.12% or 0.35 points to 299.15 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC), which lost 5.78% or 29.00 points to trade at 473.10 in late trade. JSW Steel Ltd (NS:JSTL) declined 3.78% or 10.25 points to end at 260.20 and Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) shed 3.47% or 5.70 points to 158.75.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Yes Bank Ltd (BO:YESB) which rose 0.74% to 116.20, Coal India Ltd (BO:COAL) which was up 0.10% to settle at 255.20 and Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which unchanged 0.00% to close at 740.40.
The worst performers were Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which was down 5.66% to 473.05 in late trade, Vedanta Ltd (BO:VDAN) which lost 3.33% to settle at 163.95 and Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which was down 3.20% to 158.85 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1278 to 347 and 45 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1794 fell and 665 advanced, while 123 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 5.43% to 14.6500.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.52% or 7.05 to $1337.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.65% or 0.34 to hit $52.17 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.52% or 0.32 to trade at $61.69 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.20% to 69.972, while EUR/INR rose 0.25% to 78.4670.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.03% at 97.035.