Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Real Estate, IT and Technology sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 1.94%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 1.82%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK), which rose 2.52% or 30.15 points to trade at 1,226.00 at the close. Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL) added 1.03% or 10.60 points to end at 1,043.90 and AXIS Bank Ltd (NS:AXBK) was down 0.09% or 0.70 points to 789.30 in late trade.
Biggest losers included UPL Ltd (NS:UPLL), which lost 5.28% or 39.20 points to trade at 703.40 in late trade. Tata Consumer Products Ltd (NS:TACN) declined 5.04% or 42.20 points to end at 795.20 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:TEML) shed 4.60% or 49.80 points to 1,033.20.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which rose 2.63% to 1,227.50, AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which was down 0.04% to settle at 789.40 and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which lost 0.20% to close at 1,930.55.
The worst performers were UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:ULTC) which was down 4.51% to 6,481.15 in late trade, Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which lost 4.45% to settle at 1,034.30 and Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which was down 3.69% to 1,379.15 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1521 to 318 and 39 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2417 fell and 942 advanced, while 101 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 7.77% to 19.82.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.38% or 6.35 to $1,670.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October rose 0.40% or 0.34 to hit $85.44 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 0.61% or 0.55 to trade at $91.39 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.14% to 79.74, while EUR/INR fell 0.30% to 79.60.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.17% at 109.64.