Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Banking, Carbon and Auto sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 1.77%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 1.98%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC), which rose 3.94% or 4.10 points to trade at 108.15 at the close. Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL) added 3.90% or 5.00 points to end at 133.05 and Divi's Laboratories Ltd. (NS:DIVI) was up 3.87% or 151.50 points to 4062.35 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (NS:HDFC), which lost 4.68% or 118.75 points to trade at 2420.10 in late trade. HDFC Bank Ltd (NS:HDBK) declined 4.09% or 60.20 points to end at 1412.30 and ICICI Bank Ltd (NS:ICBK) shed 3.37% or 20.95 points to 600.50.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which rose 4.32% to 108.55, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was up 1.57% to settle at 654.70 and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (BO:REDY) which gained 1.23% to close at 5164.30.
The worst performers were Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (BO:HDFC) which was down 4.38% to 2420.15 in late trade, HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:HDBK) which lost 4.09% to settle at 1412.20 and ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which was down 3.36% to 600.40 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 904 to 719 and 78 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1524 fell and 1304 advanced, while 161 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.19% to 23.0275.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.01% or 0.25 to $1768.55 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 1.58% or 1.03 to hit $63.98 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 1.37% or 0.93 to trade at $67.12 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.05% to 74.053, while EUR/INR fell 0.32% to 89.4975.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.26% at 90.825.